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THE NATIONAL APPLE USERS GROUP

JUNE 1991

VOLUME 6(3)

"Our goal £s
to put Macintosh

in the hands
of as many people

as possible."

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June 1991

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CONTENTS

Chairman's Corner
Letter Box

Appfc&uas ProDOS 8 and Ilgs

Public Domain Software — a personal view

Disk Zaps — Part 5

Hotline News

The Magic Machine — a hook review

The Apple Ilgs — Mac LC — a personal view

Font Mavin D.l.Y.

ProSei 16 - 8.67 — a review

APC Uninterruptible Power Supply — a review

Medley Version 2.0 — a review

Tutor-Tech — a review

Rastan GS — a review

CS/OS 5.0.4 — a commentary

Salvation Wings — a review

Library Update — new Ilgs disks

Who lamed Roger Wagner?

SoftGat Corner

Applesoft Program Documenter a review

HyperStudio — Demo Kit

HyperStudio Resource Guide

The Nibblcr Speaks

CIM — a review

StyleWriter — a review

Ishldo - The Way of Stones" — a review

Info on System 7

Claris Update

HyperMedia: The Multiple Message

Club Business — A.G.M. Minutes

Software Registration - Is It Worth It?

M3 CD-ROM set — a review

Story Editor and OverMattcr — a review

Twenty-live Tips for Excel 2.2 Users

ApFk&tms Mac 9

Mac Library

Local Groups

Members' Small Ads.

Advertisers' Index

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June Competition

Richard W Shipley

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Dave Ward

A J Robinson

Roger Wagner

Fred Grcatorcx

Dave Ward

Peter Stark

Terry Cymbalisty

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Dave Ward

William Watson

Jon Gurr

Peter Davis

The Nibbler

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Terry Cymbalisty

W G Littlewood

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June 1991

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of local user groups, and if you have
any Information which you would like
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from you.

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Appk2000 1980-1991

System 7.0

System 7.0 Is here at last, long
live System 7.0! The hype has been
around for some time and now we
have a chance to see for ourselves
what all the fuss was about.
Hopefully it will be shipping by the
time you read this.

If you rely heavily on your Macin-
tosh as a productivity tool I would
advise you not to install System 7 .0
immediately. Wait till you have time
to sec that all is well before you
commit yourself totally. It is not
going to be the same as updating
an existing system. You will And
that many of your familiar applica-
tions will no longer work.

If you do decide to install System
7.0. first of all make a complete
backup of your hard disks. I mean
all your hard disks and have a copy
of System 6.0.5 or later handy so
you can reinstall the original sys-
tem if necessary. A useful tip is to
prepare a minimal system disk on
floppy that you can use to reboot if
the hard disk decides to hang. Read
the manuals and installation guide
packaged with System 7.0. Move
all the Inits and DAs you have
added to your system into a tem-
porary folder. You can later try these
out one by one and see if they still
work. Now you can install ...

Once you have the beast installed
you will find that some menu op-
tions have moved around, that fa-
miliar commands will h ave ch anged
and the desktop has a new look.
MulUFinder and AppleShare are a
part of System 7.0 so axe available
at all times.

Be prepared for your favourite
programs to suddenly stop work-
ing. There will be a rash of updates
from the software houses as they
try to keep pace with bugs and the
new features. Claris have already
announced two new products and
two upgrades which support the
new features of System 7.0.

If you do decide to go back to
System 6.0.5 or 6.0.7 then boot up
from the minimal floppy you pre-
pared earlier and delete the entire
System folder, the Trash and
Desktop directories and then copy
over your old system folder from
your backup disks. You should now
be back to square one. If your hard
disk decides not to boot after this
treatment you will need to reinstall
from your master disks.

I am sure that Apple will not love
me for saying this, but I feel that
you need to put aside a day or so to
changeyour system overand check
out your applications if you decide
to go to System 7.0!

Roger Wagner Day

There is a report of the excellent
Roger Wagner workshop later in
the magazine. Roger talked of many
things at Bidmuthln but forme one
of the most interesting points he
made was to give his view on the
future of the Apple II series.

You must remember he said that
Apple are schizophrenic. On the
one hand they wish to be at the
leading edge of technology and
business solutions and so will only
think about and promote the Mac-
intosh. On the other hand they are
a company led by the shareholders
on Wall Street. These shareholders
will not let them throw away a
turnover of several billion doUars a
year that is currently brought in by
sales of Apple n computers and
peripherals.

He also pointed out that with the
recent price cuts of the Macintosh
range the profit margin on the Mac
has been cut. As a corresponding
cut has not been made to the Apple
Ilgs this now makes it the most
profitable computer Apple sells! He
predicted we will not seen the end
of the II line for some time to come.

He has now sold over 10.000
copies of HyperStudio, a program
that can make the Ilgs into a true
MultlMedia computer. He pointed
out that you do not need to add
anythingmorethana low cost Video
Overlay card to link the Ilgs to all of
the peripherals that it takes many
thousands of dollars to connect the
Mac to.

Ewen Wan nop

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Apple2000

June 1991

Hadlelgh
Suffolk

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Dear fellow members.

My Backllt 4/40 Portable needs an
accounting program that It's owner
can work, and owner that has an un-
derstanding of basic accounting pro-
cedures but really hates doing any
form ofbook kee ping because the owner
doesn't reckon it's real work well not
creative work anyroad.

Fact is, the owner's inept when it
comes to disciplining himself enough
to daily enter all the junk; the orders,
sales, expenses and VAT if it looks like
hard yacka.

The owner's businesses are all small
but need to be checked as often as the
owner feels is necessary to know what
the health of these enterprises is
GeneraUng orders and Invoices is im-
portant too. And linking 'em all together
would help my Portable tons.

La s t of all my Portable wan ts a free or
cheap book keeping program because
it's owner has Just forked out more
than 2K on upgrading from a trusty
ole'512KE.

For under IK on the open market
there's Ritz for book keepers and Path
for non accounting literates both
costing about £440. Then there's Ac-
cess which is Just a cash book for
£ 1 75. Last there's MacMoney 3 UK for
£75 but needs Invoicelt UK as an add
on for invoicing for £65 making £140
in to to.

So how about it User 200 friends,
what's out there in the eleclrosphere.

On behalf of a Portable, thank you
very much.
Alafitalr Gordon Scott

□ This is beyond my ken. As the Mac
brigade are normally very silent in the
pages of Apple2000, can you help us
out with this one? Just some com-
ments on what you use. or even an in
depth analysis of what's on offer,
anything to help Alastair!

Perhaps our Macintosh users do not
read these pages thinking that nothing
in the first half of Apple20O0 might be
for them. Come on, don't let the Apple
II dominate the Letters page, write to
us please!
The Editor «

June 1991

Kirkcaldy
Fife

Dear Apple2000.

Many thanks for a really great Maga-
zine. I have now been a keen reader for
nearly 3 years although this is the first
time that I have ever written to you . or
any mag for Uiat matter. I have often
read articles and thought comments
that could have been written in reply
but by the time I had found time to sit
down and compose a letter the notion
or ideas had gone. But a comment
from Frank J Pycroft about the
pardoning of your magazine left me no
opUon but to express myself right this
very minute (or two).

First of all I have to explain that IVe
had an Apple computer, in one form or
another, since about 1981. and my
set-up has changed so many times In
that period that I could not list them all
here. What I am trying to say is that
when I read your magazine and I come
across an article on a gad get or program
that I do not have. I skip it. (like the
Mac half of the mag) but whenever I
add something to my system then the
first thing I do is get out ail my Apple
2000's right from the start and look for
articles, reviews, problems etc. on this
subject or device. Now I do not know
whether in the distant (or not so dis-
tant) future I might get myself a Mac.
but Oils I do know that if I do get one,
and the past is anything to go by. It will
not be a new one with all the latest
systems, upgrades etc. which means I
will have to ilnd out about all the
quirks, upgrades and Interface prob
lems that other people have already
had and overcome.

Not only this but I now have a pe-
ripheral which I have never seen men-
tioned in the II side of the mag, and
that Is a LaserWriter NTX printer. I

have this connected to my Ilgs using
theApplcTalkand uaePublishIU3and
AppleWorks GS as well as a few other
pieces wh Ich have I-aserWrlt er drivers .
I must confess I was surprised at the
number of software packages that ac-
tually support a laserprinterbut having
found out this I now wonder how many
more people out there have one linked
to a Ilgs or is It only Mac users.

Anyway, back to my original point.
PLEASE don't think about shrinking
your magazine - it's fine the way it is. I
must admit I did get a bit sick of the
Apple User mag in the last few months
of its life, giving us nothing but Mac
stuff, especially when they had a
magazine of their own by the same
publisher, but your magazine is well*
balanced and has enough interesting
stuff in it to keep me in the loo half an
hour longer than I need to be.

Alex Rol lo

PS I am not very good at putting my
thoughts in a coherent manner down
on paper and this, along with the prob-
lem of not knowing which category my
thoughts fall Into or who do I address
this comment to. have hindered me in
writing before.

Is there not some kind of way whereby
you could print in the magazine a sort
of template of the kind of items you are
looking for and the person to whom it
should be addressed.

Also do you edit/ rearrange or oth-
erwise tear to bits items so that they
make sense to the reader or does the
thingget printed as we send it including
all Its gibberish, bad spelling and un-
intelligible mumbo Jumbo.

I do not know if these comments
themselves make any sense to you or if
my suggestions would work but I feel
that there could be a better response
from your readers if something was
done to encourage/prompt us to write.

□ Great letter! Lots of comments'and
ideas there Alex.

First let me start by endorsing your
comments about OUK magazine. It is
OUR magazine of course as we are all
fellow members and volunteers of Ap-
ple2O00. There is no permanent staff
at Apple2000 and the magazine, and
all the other work of the group, is done
by those who give up their spare time
for this worthy cause.

If we were to split the magazine as
Frank Pycrofl had suggested, would
we split it into two. three or five parts?
The Apple /// is not an Apple II, the
Ilgs Is not really a II either and the Lisa
is not really a Macintosh. I also wonder

Q If you have an urgent problem you should ring the Hotline to get help.
Letters and Fax submit led to Apple2000 will normally be dealt with as part
of the editorial content of the next magazine. We shall endeavour to answer
problems if at all possible before publication, but due to the large volume
of letters received this may not be possible in all circumstances.
Please submit all letters and articles to the magazine on disk wherever
possible. The disks will be returned to you when the magazine is
published. If you have a modem, send us letters, articles and Public
Domain programs either to 84:BSG001 or to TADDS i ■ - • .

Apple2000

B M

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what we do when a new Apple compu-
ter, with a new name, appears in a year
or so? We shall leave OUR magazine
precisely as it Is. many members say
they have an Interest in all machines
anyway.

You ask if we could publish some
kind of a template to show what we
want in the magazine. We do have a
PageMaker 4.0 template which shows
how the magazine is laid out. this is not
of course one showing what we want.
Just how it should look. Anyone with
PageMaker 4.0, and contemplating
writing an article, may request a copy
of the template. What you are asking
for is really a list of things we would be
Interested In.

The simple answer is EVERYTHING
and ANYTHING. We spell check all
material before It goes in. We will edit
if necessary and of course arrange and
lay out the articles as needed. Typically
an article will come to us as a disk file
with possibly some printouts of any
illustrations. We scan these where
needed and put the whole t hi ng together
on the Mac.

We require articles on any subject
and reviews on anything etc. etc. If
there is a member out there who would
like to turn their hand to reviewing,
and would like to join our growing
band of reviewers, I would suggest that
you first submit an article so we can
see the quality of your writing style.
What I would suggest is that you take
a piece of software that you know well,
that has not been reviewed recently in
Apple2000, and write about it from the
point of view of an experienced user re-
appraising the package. Tills will give
us something of interest to other
members and show us how you can
write. You never know, you may end
up reviewing the latest super duper.

eve lybody wants to do it, multi faceted.

Apple II/IIgs/Macinlosh integrated

program!

The Editor *

Cranleigh
Surrey

Dear Apple2000,

I have a subscription to A+/InCider
magazine and once in a while they
publish something of real value to all
GS users. I came across such a gem
recently and would have written ear
lier but had to wait until I had time to
make It work first. I once had
PalntWorks Gold installed on my hard
disk in the days when the operating
system was GS/OS version 4. Despite
its faults. PWG is an excellent graphics
program especially when installed on a
hard disk so that it can be accessed
rapidly.

I then upgraded my hard disk to GS/
OS version 5. TTie speed increase when
loading AppleWorks CS was dramatic,
but there was no way my PalntWorks
Gold would work with GS/OS ver 5. If
I wanted to use it it now had to be
loaded from floppy.

I wrote to the authors Actlvislon in
the States explaining the problem and
asking if there was an upgrade avail-
able or planned to cure the problem.
They wrote me back a very sympathetic
letter regrelting that their owners
Mediagenic had no such plans, and
that they were very sorry.

Then a report appeared in A+/InCider
which explained the PWG problem and
the apparent cure. I spent ages trying
to get the Basic program listed to work
and it failed each time. Finally I decided
to try the sector editor from Copy II
Plus (something I normally avoid) and

edit the Hexadecimal code. I found It
surprisingly easy provided a few basic
precautions are taken.

First I copied my PWG disk complete.
I then used the copy and the sector
editor. I used the search facility to
locate tlie Utrget Hex sequence quoted
and after about two or three minutes
the program listed the sequence and
its sector. I then entered edit mode,
changed the targctcodc. fromC90800
DO CE to C9 7F 00 DO CE. Finally I
wrote the modified sector back to the
PWG copy disk. I then rebooted the
system and started the modified PWG
from my hard disk ver 5 Finder and all
was now well. TTie last stage was to
remove the old PWG from my hard disk
and replace Itwilh the modified version.

I hope this may be of benefit to
anyone else with the same problem.
M. J Sklpp

Q Thank you for that patch. May I
remind members this information must
not be used to pirate copies of
PalntWorks Gold. It may only be used
to transfer legal copies of the program
to your own hard disk.
The Editor *

Pagham
West Sussex

Dear Apple2000.

I am currently planning on buying a
hard disk drive lore my Apple llgs.
When looking through my Dads PC
magazines I saw that hard disk drives
for PC compatibles were much cheaper
than for Apple computers. I was very
pleased to see that Seagate SCSI drives
without controller cards started at £ 1 50
plus VAT for 20mb. I was planning on
getting roughly a 60mb drive then

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getting a SCSI card for the GS but I
have heard that this can cause prob
lems due to the fact that you do not get
formatting software with it. Please could
you tell me whether this method of
getting a hard disk drive Is worth doing
in order to get a larger capacity for the
same price a9 a 20mb GS specific
drive. Also, could you tell me which Is
the best SCSI card to get with it and
give me Instructions on how to format
It and use with GS/OS etc. so I can
refer back when I get it If 1 do not get
one of these I would get a Vulcan 20mb
drive as I would much prefer the con-
venience of an Internal drive.

Are the labels to go onto the maga-
zines printed in alphabetical order of
the members surname? My surname
is late in the alphabet and I receive my
magazine after some other people and
another member I know whose sur-
name Is very near the end gels h is after
me. I am asking this because I was very
disappointed to find that Holdens had
sold the 1 OOmb Vulcandrlve advertised
in last months magazine a few days
earlier. If you do send them out In this
order Is It possible to print them in a
more random order if sending them
out lakes, place over several days so In
future any special offers go to anyone
rather than the same people who get
their magazine Qrst every month.

Was the last Apple Slices Mac spe-
cific? I am asklnc because I found
nothing related to the Apple II In It . and
only the members small ads and news
of the AGM were of any Interest to me
at all?
Jonathon Shippam

J Let me answer in reverse order.

Slices is made up of any material we
have received between issues of the
magazine. We only normally include
news and letters In Slices and in some
months there Is Just no Apple II news
to be had at all. We are sorry you felt
the March issue was only Mac specific.
we shall try and do better next time
round.

The address labels are indeed printed
alphabetically, but the magazines are
all posted at the same time. You will
need to blame the Post Office on this
one. My surname is almost last in the
alphabet and It someilmes takes only
two days and other times nearly a week
for my copy to get to me. Perhaps there
is a Post Office worker In Liverpool
sorting the sacks of mall and making
sure those with surnames late In the
alphabet suffer!

Now to the hard disk question. New
members Joining Apple2000 do not
have access to the back issues of the
magazine. All of these points about
hard disk drives have been covered
over the last three years or so. As you
have not seen those issues, and also
for other new readers. I will go over the
points again.

Yes. it could be a sensible solution to
get a bare SCSI drive as you suggest.
The best size to use on the Apple U is a

June 1991

62mb drive. The reason for choosing
that size is that it can be split into two
partiUons of 3 1 mb each. ProDOS 8 can
only sec a 32mb maximum partition
and also can only map partitions into
two logical drives per slot. A drive
larger than 64mb would mean some of
i t would be invisible to ProDOS 8. 1 f you
are only going to use your drive with
GS/OS and never run any ProDOS 8
applications then you can choose any
size of drive you like and create mul-
tiple partitions with ADV.DISK.UTIL.

If you do buy a bare drive you will
also need to gel a power supply and a
case. Any PC type power supply will do
as the power connectors are the same
on all hard drives whether they are
SCSI or not. You will need a power
supply with at least 30 watts available.
You will also nerd to get some 50 way
IDC connectors and ribbon cable to
connect the connectors to the drive.
The drive itself takes a 50 way IDC
connector and the outside of the box
should have two 50 way Centronics
type IDC connectors. You can buy
cases from various sources. A2-Central
for instance sells these parts as well as
the drives. You can also try Derek
Hughes at SeaCale. You will also need
to get a 50 to 25 way SCSI cable and a
Terminator. Apple2000 can supply
those. 1 1 Is wise to remove the terminator
resistor packs from the SCSI drive and
use an external terminator. This way
you can expand on the SCSI chain
later on if you need to. Remember that
nearly all of this Is included if you buy
a ready made drive!

You will also need a SCSI card. The
most versatile one on offer at the mo-
ment is the Apple High Speed DMA
SCSI card. This will hook up to any
SCSI drive. CD-ROM or Syquest car-
tridge drive. It also comes with a very
useful piece of software,
I IDSCPAKlYnON. This will do all the
formatting for you automatically. It
low-level formats, partitions into two
and high-level formats the drive in one
pass. This answers yourquestion about
the problems of formatting the drive.
The older version of HDSCPARTTTION
that came with the Rev C SCSI card
does not do all these actions!

There are various forms of inner
hard disk drive available. Cirtech of
course do the InSyder drive on a card.
This has a SCSI port as well so you can
hook up further drives. However the
SCSI connector expects standard ex-
ternal SCSI drives. It will not work with
all of those on the market. You should
check with Cirtech before getting any
additional drives. The Vulcan
powerpack/drrve is not a SCSI drive
but works fine with GS/OS. The Applied
Ingenuity powerpack/drive (the com-
pany is now defunct) is a SCSI device
and again works fine. There is an
advantage to an external drive of course
in that you can carry it around easily
and hook it up to any other Apple II
with a standard SCSI port!

The golden nile of course is thai no

Apple2000

drive you get Is ever big enough. 20mb
sounds a lot till you start to fill it upl I
would suggest 62mb as a suitable
starting point.
The Boffin *

Bideford
Devon

•

Dear Ewen,

Several times over the last few months
I have tried to contact TABBS with
singular lack of success. On the oc-
casions when I don't get BUSY, then
my modem gets a warbling tone . I send
a few CRs to establish speed, nothing
happens for a while, nothing appears
on the screen and then the modem
hangs up and reports NO CARRIER I
have n problem with TelecomGold
DialPlus and I had no problem (of that
nature) with CompuServe while I was
am member. I'm not sure what I'm
doing wring, and perhaps you could
advise.

Set up is Mac Ilex. Modem PACE
Four 2400S, Com software DeskCom,
set to 2400 lid. Parity None, 8 bits. 1
Stop bit. ScanMan. CD. DeskWrlter.

What I wanted to contact you about
was the power start problem with the
Ilex* I remember reading in Apple2000.
I think towards the end of last year of
the incipient problem of the Mac re-
fusing to switch on. cured temporarily
till next time by disconneciinglhe power
lead for a minute or so. I remember
that the article. I think in the corre-
spondence columns, gave the cure - a
resistor across some reservoir capaci-
tor? - but I can't find the article. Can
anyone help now ihal my Ilex is giving
the Identical trouble?

Can I also express my appreciation
for all that you do lor Apple200O
members, the ungrateful lot!
John Stanler

Q That has brightened my day ... it has
all been worth it after all even though
my fingers arc worn out typing In all
these lettersl

TABBS is now using the new PACE
Ultralink 32 modem. This scans
through all the baud rates that are
available starting from 2400 down to
300. It also looks for LAPM and MNF
error correction at the calling end. The
cycle time on this scan is around 4
seconds, if your PACE Series IV also
has Hie same cycle time. It may be that
the baud rate It isjust not coincidlngat
all during the scan period. Try setting
your modem to a different scan period
(S54=6 for instance). Also try setUng
your modem so it does not scan at all
(S53= 1 and S5 1 =4 in your modem Inlt
string]. You do not need to type any
CRs to establish speed on TABBS and
it is even possible that this might
confuse things. Just wait till your
modem and software locks on. The
typing of CRs to establish speed was a
handover from the days when systems
would respond to 1 50 baud using the

S i

same carrier as 300 baud!

If none of those solutions works,
contact PACE (0274 532000). and tell
them you arc having problems calling
an Ultralink from a Series IV. They
might be able to provide a solution for
you.

1 too have scanned the pages of
Apple2000 and cannot find the refer
ence to power supply problems on the
Hex. I have also checked out AppleLink
Tech support and they have nothing
either. The Ilex uses a self starting
switched mode power supply. It could
be that you are drawing too much
power for It to start up by Itself when
switched on. Certainly your hard drive
draws quite a bit of power on startup.
1 would check that all the connectors
Inside the Ilex are making good con-
tacts.

If anyone can find the reference that
Is mentioned, please let us have it and
wc shall get it published again.
Meanwhile you could also try your
local Apple Service Centre, they may
have some knowledge of this and can
find a cure. If It Is a known problem
notiilcd to them by Apple then they
should be able to" repair It for you
despite the computer being out of
guarantee.
The Boffin *

thing more than that It is probably

cheaper to actually go and buy a PC

clonel

The Boffin *

Rldgeway
Sheffield

Dear Apple2000.

I have been using a //e for three
years now. but would like some views
on the Applied Engineering PC Trans
porter that Bidmulhln supplies to en-
able me to read and write MS.DOS
disks. 1 use an Amstrad 1640 and a
Tandon 386 at work, but need at times
to work at home on MS.DOS system
disks.
Eric Pritchard

Q The PC Transporter card, as many
will testify, is an excellent addition to
the //c. It works very well indeed.
However there are some points you
might like to bear in mind.

1 . It Is not a cheap option to take. You
need not only the Transporter card
but an AE PC disk drive and a //e
fitting kit as well.

2. You will only be able to use 5.25
360k MS.DOS disks unless you also
buy an Apple 3.5 drive.

3. You can only emulate an IBM XT
clone with CCA graphics. This may
not run all the software from your
Tandon 386.

4. There will only be around 750k of
memory available to the XT so again
you may have problems running
some software.

To sum up. If you only require the
equivalent of a standard XT PC with
CGA graphics and 5.25 disks then the
PC Transporter works fine. For any-

London

Via TABBS

•

Dear Ewen,

With reference to the query of Mr.
Brian Gooch In the February '9 1 A2000.
there are (or were) two versions of
MANX AZTEC C for the Apple ][+/][e/
][c range. AZTEC C65 VI .Oc runs un-
der DOS 3.3 and AZTEC C65 V3.02b
runs under IVoDOS. I have used the
latter.

Development Is carried out under a
UNIX like shell. Programs can run
under ProDOS or the shell. There are
linker options to wrap code around
reserved sections of memory (eg:
Graphics pages.), and a comprehensive
overlay system Is provided for the de-
velopment of large programs. GRAY
MATTER of Ashburton. Devon, should
be able to tell you if these packages are
still available.
Bryn Jones #

Port Elizabeth
Republic of South Africa

Dear Editor.

This Is a cry for help from across the
world. I Just hope some one can help
me. I wrote to I*ace Software, but my
letter was returned so they have either
moved or gone out of business.

I have an Apple //e with a Pace
Mastercard and Nightingale modem
which I purchased second hand, about
3 years ago from a friend. He had the
Instruct ion manual for the Nightingale
modem but could not find the one for
the Mastercard. The wiring into the 10
way plug on the connecting cord that
plugs into the Mastercard was In a
poor condition, so last month I took it
to work and had it repaired.

We manufacture wiring looms for
automobiles.

However although 1 was careful about
the wiring connections, for some rea-
so n my modem will not work any more.
When I do the self test in Terminal
mode and type in letters at the key-
board, the red LED flashes green but
nothing reflects back to the screen.
Obviously one or more of the little
terminals are In the wrong place.

Could you please let me know If I can
obtain an instruction manual for the
Pace Master Card or even just the
connection diagram for the 10 way
connector that plugs into it.

There are still a few dedicated Apple
fans here in Port Elizabeth and we
haveasmallusergroupgolng. However
although new Apple products can be
obtained with difficulty, our inflation
has put most of it way beyond our
pockets. The British pound used to be
equal to two of our Rands, but today Is

worth Ave.

I managed to get an extended 80
column card, and an enhancement
chip for my Epson 8132 card through
MGA Softcat thanks to adverts in Ap-
ple 2000 and this has made life easier.

I hope that you can help me to ge t my
modem working again.
Drew von Bratt

□ PACE have indeed moved and now
have the address:

PACE Micro Technology Limited,

Victoria Road,

Shipley.

West Yorks.

BD18 3LF.

England.

Tel: 0274 532000

Fax: 0274 532010.

The connections for the Mastercard
to the Nightingale are as follows:

TRANSMIT DATA

RECEIVE DATA

RTS

CTS

GROUND

DCD

DTR

SPARE

10. +5V(VIa Ik ohms)

Looking at the solder connections of
the 5 pin domino plug going to the
Nightingale, connect as follows viewing
with the cutout to the top:

Centre pin CROUND

Common Ground

Top Right RECEIVE DATA

Data Out from modem (connect to 2

on MasterCard)

Bottom Rig hi TRANSMIT DATA

Data In to modem (connect to 1)

Top Left. RTS

Handshake (connect to 71

Bottom Left CTS

Handshake (connect to 6)

The Boffin

Cleveland
Yorkshire

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Apple2000

Dear Apple2000,

As a new starter in computers 1 have
no idea what I shall require in Software.
I'll need guidance and advice on this
Issue. IhavejustpurchasedQuickFile
from MGA. It was secondhand, I have
it working (but) there was no sample
disk with it. the Information that I now
have on disk I cannot get my printer to
work with It, the book gives reference
to Silentype or Qume. Mine is a
Panasonic KXP 1081/2. 1 got it to work
with my photography: equipment,
slides and prints, also with the video
camera equipment with information
lists ref. weddings and portrait work so
now you see what I mean about my
need for advice. There may be some-

June 1991

thing in the PD libraries that will help

me.

G. EUiott

Q Secondhand software Is always a
problem. The vendor may not actually
have or be able to supply all the disks
required. In many cases such software
is now so out of date that the original
publisher may no longer exist. We can
only hope that one of our members
may be able to help you out with any
missing disks.

There were so many printers, inter-
face cards and programs In the early
days that it is a nightmare trying to
thread your way through thejungle. It
was much like the IBM PC world of
today! The Silentype was a thermal
printer that Apple sold at the very
beginning. The Qume was a fairly
standard printer and I would have
thought that your Panasonic would be
very similar to software. If the Quick
File program requires custom printer
drivers, and none of the supplied ones
work with your printer, you may have
great problems in getting the thing to
work at all.

Try phoning Dave Ward on the Hot
Line. Dave will get back to you If he is
not available when you call, and he
may be able to help you thread your
way through thejungle you have found
yourself in.
The Editor *

Wellington
New Zealand

Dear Apple2000.

There arc a few things I would like to
ask concerning the Club. First the
"Shop2000" brochure gives a price of
£3.50 for a single disk. Does this mean
that for each disk from the Public
Domain Library that I order I will be
required to pay that price inclusive of
postage to NZ?

Next, the descriptions in the Library
List are somewhat brief (understand
ably) however 1 1 makes it a little hard to
Judge their usefulness. Is there a more
comprehensive description in another
publication?

Last. I possess a Singaporean Apple
][+ clone called "Cubic 99". It has an 80
column card and a 128k expansion
card and operates very well on alj
usual Apple ][+ .software. I would like lo
use later versions of AppleWorks than
1.3 modified with "PlusWorks" as well
as other paekagessuch as "Print Magic"
and ■Multlscribe". All these packages
require a //e and/or 128k but my card
is In a different slot to the norm (5 in
the Cubic) and is not recognised. Is
there any way I can physically modify
my machine to operate as a //e or Is
there some software package I can
obtain which would allow my machine
to be re-configured. 1 would rather not
dispose of the unit as it is very con-
venient having an IBM style keyboard
as well as two inbuilt disk drives. I

June 1991

would rather extend it's RAM but
naturally I would not do so If I cannot
make any use of the extra RAM by
uUlising the software I have mentioned.
I do hope that you will be able to offer
some practical suggestions and loom
forward to hearing from you in due
course.
Alan A Hart

PS. The memory card cannot be moved
to another slot as the slots are in two
lines not one as in the straight Apple.

□ I am afraid I have not much good
news for you.

The librarydlskare£3.50each which
Includes VAT and Post and Parking.
We of course do not have to pay the
VAT for overseas members but this is
offset by the increased postage lo send
abroad. We are often reminded that
media costs are much less than the
cost of a library disk but remember we
have tiverheads to consider as well. We
must acquire and store the original
software and also keep a duplicate
library for archival purposes. We also
have administration costs of paperwork
and credit card charges and the cost of
disk mailers. All this makes a price of
£3.50 the minimum we can go to and
not lose money on selling libraiy disks.

Many of our older library disks have
been handed down to us. We lust do
not really know what is on them. It
would be a mammoth task to sort them
out. We can only offer them to members
on an 'as is'basis. More recent additions
to the library are usuaily documented
in (he Apple200O magazine when they
arc announced.

You have I see one of those rare
beasis. an Apple ]( clone. You may not
be aware but there Is a fundamental
difference between the //e and the ][+.
The //e has quite a different archi-
tecture internally to the H+ and the
128k of memory in the //e is not
addressed in the same way as memory
tnthe ][+. Adding extra memory to a ||+
cannot create a / /e whichever slot you
put the memory In. This special memory
in the //e Is used for the 80 column
screen of the //e. For this reason
software written specifically for the //
e cannot run on a )I+.

You will also have another problem
with your clone. ProDOS. the current
preferred operating system, Is pro
grammed to reject any computer that
does not have an Apple operating
system ROM. It may well fail on your
machine If it has Its own operaUng
system ROM.

You therefore cannot alter your
computer to become a //e. You would
need to purchase a proper //e to run
the software you mention. The only
exceptions to this rule arc the earlier
versions of AppleWorks which can run
on a 11+ when mod tiled with PlusWorks.
But they run with a much reduced
workspace. Extra RAM in the |(+ will
not help solve this problem as it Just
will not be in the right place.
The Boffin *

Apple2000

Longlevens
Gloucester

•

DearAppIe2000.

As owner of a second-hand Apple II
Emt>plus computer nulftt and purely a
novice operator. I have encountered a
small problem in the limited time I
have had to get to know the computer
and I would appreciate any advice that
could be given on the matter.

"Omnivision" was Included with my
purchase, enabling "word processing"
to be carried out. After encountering
difilcuIUes loading the program I was
able to get it on screen and commence
operations.

Composing a basic letter, with ad-
dress and information format com-
pleted, the text proceeded until the
computer decided to beep, back-slash,
and revert to a fresh start. A study of
the Apple tutorial reveals that the
computer does this after about 2-10
characters.

1 would not have expected this to
existwithintheOmnivisionmode. since
composing a basic letter or report de-
mands conUnuous use until the letter
or screen is filled Lo capacity. Is this
significant of a fault in the Omnivision
software, or does the computer need
particular attention? Would an up-to-
date software package edit out this
peculiarity if I made a further pu rchase?

Your advice would also be appreci-
ated on the following topics:

(a) What is required to obtain higher
K values.

(b) What is required to operate with
a domestic C.T.V. monitor.

D.R. Lyes

Q I am not familiar with Ihe 'OmnMsion'
package. From your description it
seems to be line entry based and obvi
ously very limited as a word processor.
There are no up to date packages
which will run on the Apple II as all the
newer pieces of software are written to
run on the //e. However it Is still
possible to pick up a secondhand copy
of AppleWriter. This is an excellent
wordprocessor and should provide all
you would want. AppleWriter however
exists in various versions so make sure
you do not gel the //e one. You will
require AppleWriter 2.0 for the II+.

If you do not already have a lGk
RamCard in Slot of your 11+ then you
should get one Immediately. This will
allow you to use the various DOS
movers which give more space for Basic
to operate and will also allow you to
run ProDOS. There Is not much point
In increasing the memory beyond the
basic 48k plus lGk RamCard as most
profiramsjust would not see this extra
RAM. The various RAM cards available
which range up to 128k are usually
only seen by specialised software.

Ifyou intend expanding the capability
of your 11+ further, I would seriously
suggesl trying to get hold of a //e
rather than continuing with your IU.
The //e Is more versatile and will run

all of the new and up to date software.
You can of course connect your 11+ to
TV through a VCR directly. The colour
output of the 11+ Is NTSC colour and
this will not display on European TVs.
You would need to add a PAL colour
display board to give colour on a do-
mestic TV. Be warned, the colour is not
very good If displayed in this way and
Is even worse If connected to a TV
monitor having a composite video in-
put. Colour output from the 11+ is only
achieved by the smearingeflect caused
by t he low bandwidth ol a domestic TV.
CIV monitors having high bandwidth
just do not generate colour successfully.
An alternative is to add an KGB colour
card to your II +. This will drive an RGB
monitor with a much improved colour
display. If you have a TV with a SCAKT
socketyou can hookup the RGB output
from one of these cards to the SCART
connector.
The Boffin *

AppleLink:
CUMB.COMP

•

Dear Kwen,

I thought you might like to know
these points about the new printers :

1) The installers for both the StyleWrlter

and Personal LaserWriter LS
sometimes report that you need to
upgrade to system 6.0.7 to use the
new printers when you arc already
running 6.0.7. Using the 'Custom'
installer gets round this problem.

2) Hie SryleWritera come shipped with
a 13Afuse fitted in the plug. I believe
that 3A Is the largest that should be
used with the size of cable lilted.
Also, the cable is 'only just' secured
properly In the cord grip.

The StylcWritcr life is around 6000
pages, and around 500 pages per
cartridge. Taking Oils into considera-
tion it gives a running cost of about
7.2p per page (excluding paper).

On a per page basis it is expensive
but for personal users who want a low
cost, high quality printer It is Ideal.

Simon Hobson *

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□ We are beginning to see this month the results of a swing
to the Hgs in the States. There just is not the same number
of programs for the //e and the 11+ filtering through the
system. Nearly all wc find now is for the Hgs!

PTNBALL.SHK

Unpack to make three Pinball game programs.
You will need to reboot when you have finished
playing.

CRIBBAGE.SHK

Pack of seven games which include cribbage. card
games. Tower of Hanoi and other games of skill.
UPLUS.SHRmKIT

The latest version 2.0 of Shrinkit for the II series.
Is there no end to these updates?

/XTRAS.GS.NO.9/

Fonts Directory

CHADWELL, LONDON, EDMONTON & MADISON

A collection of four fonts for use with Hgs word
processors and programs
FONT.LSTR

A useful program for keeping track of all the fontsyou
have collected.
Utilities Directory
TRANSPROG.SHK

Version 2.2 of the TransProg program launcher.
Unpack to a disk. The disk also includes Font.DAv2.0
and a utility to control yourTransWarp accelerator.
Desk Accessory Directory
NEXTJiDA.3

An amazing directoryllsterand program launcher.
Brings the NeXT computer to the Hgs!
FMANAGER

A useful NDA that allows you to move, copy,
delete, find, view and manage your files from
the desktop.

SOLITAIRE

Bored withyour slow spreadsheet, have a game of
Solitaire while you wait!

KEYFIND.DA

The KeyCaps of the Hgs. Shows you how to find

those hidden keys.
DATAPATH.DA

Sets up defined paths to the standard prefixeson

program launching.
SHR.VIEW

Slideshow program which displays virtually any kind
of picture you may find on your disks. It will also
display 32000 colour pictures.
System In its Directory
GRAFSPEED

In it to speed up scrolling of list windows in the

Finder.

GS.SPY

Monitors disk activity on the screen. Useful for
Inner drives which have no disk access light.

TWO. BORDERS

Preselects the colours of your choice for the
borders of the SHR screen.
IDL

Mounts desk accessories from external drives or
other tha n the usual Desk. Aces directory on boot .
Games Directory
ANTETRIS

A Tetrls like game for the Hgs. See how high a score
you can gel!

We are now well into our second series of Xtras disks.
Some members have only Joined Xtras part way through the
year. In some cases they will not have the necessary tools to
be able to UnShrink and deal with the files on the disks.

For this reason we recently issued aToolklt on a 5.2 5 inch
disk. We now find that some Hgs owners do not have a 5.25
drive. We have therefore issued a Hgs Xtras Toolkit. Check
out under the new disk releases later in this magazine. «

App!e2000

June 1991

Public Domain
Software

Richard W , Sh ipley gives a
personal view on a thorny
subject

Since 1 bought my Apple //e computer in 1984. I knew
very little of Public domain Software. I joined Apple 2000 in
1988/1989 and was sent a list of The Public Domain
Software which they Issued on the Intro disk they sent to
me. It consisted of a list ol disk numbers and programs with
no explanations. This didn't mean much to me so 1 decided
not to bother and filed It away. A little while later I received
unsolicited a catalogue of I*ublic Domain Software from
"Kingsway Computer Services". Like the Apple 2000* s list It
was just names of programs with no explanation. I started
to throw it away but then I hesitated, the bumph said,
"When you receive Public Domain disks you will not receive
any printed documentation. Documentation comes as a
text file on the disk which you can print out or read on your
computer screen. " The disks were priced £4. OOp each or ten
for £35.00p. so I took another look at the catalogue and
selected 10 disks with program names that sounded Inter-
esting. I filled out my order form and sent It off. The ten disks
duly arrived. I unpacked them and retired to my study to
boot up and try them out.

The first thing I noticed was that explanation text files
wc re lew and far between . The second thing 1 found was that
many of the procrams were corrupted, some to the point
that they needed to be completely rewritten. An example of
this Is on a disk headed "Apple 10 Business" a program
called -STOOKMARKET FORECASTER". It took many
months of rewriting to get that program up and running,
and a program called "STOCK VALUATION" on the same
diskjust did not exist at alL In spite of the fact that when the
disk was catalogued it showed up. I wrote to Kingsway
complaining of this and sent back the disk asking for a
correct replacement. Some weeks went by with no word - 1
wrote again - still no reply, so I wrote a third time demanding
a refund - I got a reply Oils time in the form of a replacement
disk and a "with complements" slip this disk had the same
corruptions as the one I sent back. I gave up after that and
decided that that P.D.S. wasn't worth it! I was very annoyed
by the fact that many of the programmes I was Interested in
didn't run pmperly. all programmes were heavily American
orientated and very badly written.

I then bought, second hand, a copy of "Beneath Apple
DOS". I was Interested In the example programmes it
featured. I had noticed that the Apple 2000 P. U.S. Library
list had a disk with those programs on so I sent for it to save
my fingers. When the disk came I booted it up and immedi-
ately noUced a difference with this disk to ones I had
received from Kingsway. To start with the HELLO pro-
gramme ran a programme launcher which made running
the programmes easier. I also found several other pro-
grammes that were of use and that ran without my having
to "doctor" them. I came to the conclusion that maybe some
P.D.S. was worth havinn after all.

I thought that I would try P.D.S. from other sources. I
looked through Apple 2000's magazine for any adverts of
P.D.S. I saw an advert for "COMPUTABILITY" in Southamp-
ton and sentfor their catalogue which cameacouple of days
later. It was set out completely differently to both Kingsway
and Apple 20O0's catalogues. Each disk named had a short

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Apple2000

resume of the type of programs rather
than Just a straight list of program
names. Program names do not always
mean much to tb? prospective pur-
chaser because although relevant . they
do not always Indicate what the pro
gram Is supposed to do. Another point
In their favour was that the computer
configuration was stated i.e. Runs on
He. He . and Laser 1 28. does not run on
Ilgs; and their disks were priced at only
£1 .50p each. I selected four disks and
sent off my order. They arrived within
a few days of my posting the order.
When 1 looked at them on my compu
ter my first Impression was pleasant
surprise.

start with. 1 booted the disk and was
presented with a request for the date
as my computer didn't have a Thunder
Clock Installed. The program was menu
driven. The first menu consisted of a
list of seven memory configurations.
an Initialise & format option and Quit.
I selected my configuraUon, Apple with
extended 80 col card and pressed re-
turn. The program immediately
bleeped, and told me. THIS APPLE
HAS NO EXTD 80 COL CARD" and
reset Itself to "64K. 128+ A.E. KAM
CARD" which I accepted. Having en-
tered a configuraUon that was accept-
able, the program repositioned
'DIVERSI DOS* and displayed the Main

The firstdlskwasasharewareWORD
PROCESSOR, written, it was claimed,
by the author of APPLEWRITER | [ pro-
gram and running under PRODOS.
This worked very well and was very
well documented with four text files of
lnformatlo n on the disk which could be
viewed on screen or printed out using
the word processor Itself. It had both
40 col and 80 col screen format avail-
able with adjustable printer width set-
tings of up to 120columns with right to
left scrolling if this was set wider than
the screen width.

My next choice was a suite of stock
market programs called P.V.ELVES.
This was somewhat disappointing to

Menu'. My first few attempts at run
ning this program proved unproduc-
tive as the lack of data files caused the
program to crash. With a little perse
verance however I was able to find my
way around the program.

My third choice was a disk enutled
"OTHELLO". This largely contained a
version of the game and a teaching
program for the game called "OTHELLO
STRATEGY", plus a game of "BACK-
GAMMON" which when run. set out a
board on the Hi Res screen and played
very aggressively - and I suspect that It
cheated with the dice rolls, as they
come out veiy much in the computers
favour. There were also several other

Apple2000

programs on this disk including a
demonstraUon sort program with an
entertaining Hi- Res graphics display
included.

My forth choice was a set of
AppleWritcr //e UtiliUes all written In
W.P.L. with ample explanation of how
to use them. For someone with a copy
of AppleWritcr //e this is a very useful
disk to have.

So after after sampling some of the
better end of the P.D.S. market my
opinion has drasUcally improved. I
think anyone on a low budget should
investigate P.D.S. software butbewareH
order a sample disk first from a couple
of sources and deckle If what you are
buying is of a reasonable quality for the
money you are paying

Richard W Shipley *

Q I think Richard's experience may
well be typical of many of our mem
bers.

Apple200O receives many hundreds
of programs a year from many different
sources. With limited time at the dis-
posal of the volunteers running the
libraries it is usually not possible to do
more than check the things work, sort
Into categories, and place them into
the various libraries.

Much of the newer software does
come with Help flies or Docu ment files
and so will be self explanatory. The
older material that is on the early
disks, and this especially applies to the
older DOS 3.3 software, may not be
documented at all. We can only offer it
as it stands hoping It may be of use to
someone. Newer material is more often
than not fully documented.

Pricing library disks realistically has
always been a problem. A disk may
only cost 30 pence but a mailer costs
over 40 pence, postage is usually
around 35 pence, and there are also
the overheads we have to pay in Just
acquiring and storing the library ma
terial in the first place. Add VAT to all
of that and you can begin to see why
Computabtlity could not continue at
the prices they were charging and went
out of business at the end ot last year.
Wc have continued to supply ail the
older material In our libraries on the
basis that you will be buying It unseen.
Where possible with new issues we
give further descripUons in the maga-
zine that the disks have been an-
nounced.

The Xtras scheme was started last
year In an attempt to provide you with
the very latest PD and Shareware
material in an easily digesUble bi-
monthly slice. These disks are always
descrivbed fully in the magazine linked
with that issue.

A certain amount of knowledge must
always be assumed in dealing with
material issued in the libraries. We
have recently issued ToolKJt disks on
both 5.25 and 3.5 format to help han-
dle the Xtras programs.
Ewen Wannop 4

June 1991

Disk Zaps

and all that (part 5)

Let your fingers do the walking ..
Ewen Wannop explores
the ProDOS Directory

As you will have already seen. Pro-
DOS is considerably more powerful
than its predecessor DOS 3.3. It has a
greater flexibility built In to itself, and
has veiy few rigidly defined values in
its disc structure. This allows devices
of very different kinds to be easily
attached. Most devices will however
follow the normal structure that we see
on a standard 5.25 inch disc. I have
not yet had experience of a 3. 5 inch
Unidisk drive, so the following notes
refer mainly to the structure of a 5.25
inch disc. The required information is
there however, for you to see how any
other device is handled.

If you are using a DOS 3.3 disc zap.
such as DISK MANAGER from the
library, you will need to translate the
ProDOS block numbers into DOS 3.3
sectors. Refer to article number 4 in
the April issue of Apple2O00.

The Block structure

Blocks 0-2 on a ProDOS disc are
unique. DIock Is the boot Image
needed to load l>roDOS. Block 1 is
reserved for. but need not contain, a
boot image for SOS on an Apple ///.
Block 2 is always the first block of the
ProDOSdlrectory, and contains all the
pointers necessary to define the disc
structure. The first block of any di-
rectory, whether the main Volume di-
rectory or a Sub directory, is also unique
in its conslrucUon. It may also be the
only block, if required, to save disc
space.

Each block of any directory lias the
first four bytes 0-3 reserved for point-
ing to the other blocks in that directory.
The first two. 0- 1 point backwards,
and the second pair, 2-3 point forwards.
If either of these pairs is zeroed, then It
Indicates the end of the chain. So the
first block will always have the first two
zeroed, and the last block will always
have the second pair zeroed. A direc-
tory with only a single block, would
have both pairs zeroed.

Pointers to the Blocks

You will find that in every case where
a block number Is to be pointed to,
there will be a pair of bytes . This allows
block numbers up to G5535. Remem-
bering that blocks have 512 bytes of
data, this gives a possible volume of 32

megabytes. Quite ample for most pur-
poses!

The next $27 bytes of the first block
are rigidly defined, and describe the
Volume Directory Header. This is then
followed by the file entries, which are
usually $27 bytes long, but as you will
see may be of any length. These bytes
are defined as follows. For convenience
I will refer to their offset from the start
of the block, ie. the first byte of the
entry will be offset $4.

OFFSET $04 Storage type and name
length. The topfour bits describe the

entry type, in this case $F as it is a
volume directory. The bottom four
bits are the length of the Volume
name, this means a maximum of 15
characters.

$05-$ 13 Volume name of length
pointed to by previous byte. Max 15
bytes. Garbage fills the rest of the
entry. All volume and filenames are
entered with the I libit ofT.

$14-$ IB Reserved. Usually zeroes.

$1C-$1F Date and time of creation.
Zero If nodate was written. The bytes
arc a packed form of the date. Each
bit has the following representaUon:
BYTE 0-1 yyyyyyymmmmddddd
year/ month/day

BYTE 2-3 OOOhhhhhOOmmmmmm
hours/minutes

These bytes should be read with the
highest bit to the left, so the y/rn/d
has byte 1 as the yyyyyyym part and
byte Is mmmddddd.
Hie sequences of bits should be read
as a two byte HEX number 4th July
1986 at 6 minutes past noon will
therefore look like tills:
In decimal 86/7/4 12/6
In binary 1010110/0111/00100
00001100/00000110
In Hex $ACE4 $0C06
This gives four bytes 0-3 of $E4 $AC
$06 $0C

$20 Version number of ProDOS under
which the disc was formatted. Under
ProDOS 1 series, this has a value of
0.

$21 The minimum version of ProDOS

that can access this volume. Usually
zero.

$22 Access byte. The bits refer to the
access rights to the file. Ifset the bits
are as follows;

Bit 7 - Volume may be reformatted
Bit 6 - Volume may be renamed
Bit 5 -Volume directory has changed
since last backup
Bit 1 - Volume directory may be
written to

Bit - Volume directory may be read
All other bits reserved

$23 Entry length of each file entry in
the directory. Usually $27.

$24 Number of entries in each block.
The header is included in this count.
Usually $0D.

$25-$26 The number of active entries
in the volume directory. 'ITie Volume
header is not Included, but any
subdirectory entries are.

$27-$28 This points to the first block
of the volume bit map. Usually block
6.

S29-62 A The total number of blocks
on this volume. On a 5.25 inch disc
this will be $01 18 or 280 decimal. It
is used while computing with the
disc map.

Using the value gained from the 'entry
length', usually $27. we now see the
filename entries ranged sequentially
through the block. Remember that a
block Is two sectors long and should be
considered as one long block of $200
bytes. You will need to wrap the entries
from one sector to the next to span the
break. Each filename entry is struc-
tured In a similar way to the Volume
directory header. I give the onsets in
this case from the start of the entry,

OFFSET $00 Storage type and name
length. The bottom four bits are the
length of the following filename. Tlic
top four bits refer to the type of
storage of this entry:

$0 Deleted entry, may be reused
$1 - Seedling file, only one block
$2 - Sapling file. 2-256 blocks
$3 - Tree file. 257-32768 blocks
$D - The file Ls In fad a subdirectory
$E - This is a Subdirectory Header
$F - This is a Volume Directory Header

$01-$0F Filename. 15 byte max.

$10 FUetypr. There are a potential of
256111c types.... Some 30 arc defined
between the SOS and ProDOS sys-
tems.

The main ones are:
$04 -TXT file in ASCII
$06 - BIN file
$0F - DIR Directory file
$1A - AWP AppleWorks word
processing file

June 1991

Apple2000

$FC BAS Applesoft Basic file
$FF - SYS ProOOS System file

$11-$12 Pointer to either the data
block of a seedling file, or the first
index block of any other file. If a
subdirectory entry, then it jx>lnts to
the first directory block.

$13-$14 The total number of blocks
used by the file Including any index
blocks. If a subdirectory then the
total number of directory blocks.

$15 $17 Three bytes to give the posi-
tion of the end of file. This is the
length of a sequential file in bytes.
This gives a maximum size of 16
megabytes to a file. This will not give
the correct length of a random access
file.

this file.

The Power of ProDOS

As you will now have seen ProDOS
really is an extremely powerful system.
It holds much more information in its
directory than any other disc system
for the Apple II. It is interesting to note
that Subdirectory entries look like ac-
tual file entries. In fact this flexible
construction runs through the whole
system. There Is a considerable amount
of echoed structure, subdirectories for
instance are virtually the same as the
main directory. The directory itself is
seen as a file by ProDOS and it is
possible to open and read a directory
from the MLI as though it was itself a
file. This is the method you would use
if you wished to display a Catalog from
a program. ProDOS Itself does not
actually provide this funcUon.

$18-$1B Creation date and time en-
coded as before.

$1C The version number of ProDOS
that created this file.

$1D The minimum version of ProDOS
which can access this file.

$1E Access rights to the file. Bit
assignments as follows:
Bit 7 - The file may be deleted
Bit 6 - The file may be renamed
Bit 5 - The tile has altered since the
last backup

Bit 1 - The file may be written to
Bit - The file may be read
All other bits reserved
In an unlocked file that you ran read
and write to this will be $C3

$lF-$20 Depending on the file type,
these two bytes will represent vari-
ous parameters.

TXT - Random access record length
BIN - Load address of the binary file
BAS - Load address of the program
SYS - Load address of the System
program, usually $2000

$21-$24 Date and time of last modi-
fication.

S25-S26 *lhe block number of the

Directory Headerblock that describes

ftj*

The Index Blocks

The files themselves other than a
single block seedling file, will always
have one or more Index blocks. As of
course ProDOS does not know the
lengih of file until it Is closed, you will
find that the first block reached on free
disc space, will always be a data file.
On any other file Irian a seedling file.
I*roL)OS will need to provide pointers
to the other blocks, and so makes a
sapling file by creating the first Index
block. It then follows this block with
further data blocks. If the Index block
is filled up. then a tree file is needed
and more Index blocks must be added.
A Master Index block Is then created to
point to all the Index blocks, and the
directory altered accordingly to show a
tree file. The two byte pointer to the key
block will now point to this master
index block. An Index block itself is
interesting in Us construction. It must
of course consist of pointer pairs to
block numbers. However to make
programming easier, (he least signifi-
cant byte is placed in the lower half of
the block, and the most significant
byte in the same position In the upper
half.

All the data blocks of tiles are con-
structed in the same way. there are no
bytes describing length or load address
as lii DOS 3.3. The hi-bit is not nor-

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mally set on text files. There are how-
ever some peculiar file constructions
amongst the special file types. Have a
look at an AppleWorks AWP text file for
example.

Thats all for now

I was going to discuss the MLI In this
article, however 1 think you have had
plenty to digest so far. so will leave it till
next time. However I will Just briefly
describe its use . Those of you who have
used DOS 3.3 through machine lan-
guage, will know how tedious it Is
actually do anything with files this
way. ProDOS avoids all of this by the
magic MLI or Machine Language In-
terface. By making a simple call to the
MU at $BF00 with various defined
parameters, you can open and read
files, alter file name entries and much
more. There is even block read and
write command, the ProDOS version of
the beloved RWTS routine from DOS
3.3. In reading a file, you may define
the load address. It is this that gives
ProDOS its speed, as the data Is
dumped where it is needed, it docs not
need to be copied over as DOS 3. 3 has
to do.
Happy zapping . ..

Ewen Wan nop *

Postscript:

This article was written before the
advent of the Ilgs. To cater for the
changingand Inrreased needs imposed
by larger disk drives and the needs of
the advanced GS/OS operating system,
some minor changes have been made
to the directory entries of a GS/OS
disk.

Some of the unused bytes are now
used for additional information needed
by GS/OS. Anew Auxiliary filetypehas
been defined and filenames will now
display in upper and lowercase. There
are also many new filetypes defined
and there are also files which have
both data and resource forks.

One limitation of ProDOS. which
docs not follow Apple's own rules, is
that you can only have 51 files in the
top or main directory. There is no limit
within a subdirectory. Normally this
would not be a problem, but Apple-
Works has a nasty habit of corrupting
a disk or losing data if you try and write
that 52nd filel If you write many files
under AppleWorks, it would lie wise to
create a subdirectory first and write aU
your files in there.

A 3.5 inch disk and hard disks are
constructed in exactly the same way as
the 5.25 floppies described in the arti-
cle. Vou will need to use a disk zap
program like Copy II+. ProSel
BlockWarden or Bag of Tricks II to
access these devices. Disk Manager
mentioned in these articles was writ-
ten under DOS 3. 3 and Ju st will not see
anything other than a 5.25 disk.

Ewen Wiuinop A

June 1991

Hotline
News

Corrupt AppleWorks files.

From time to time I get questions
regarding AppleWorks flies, both
Wordprocessor and Database, that will
not load Into AppleWorks due to 'get-
tingerrors' message. IVe had four such
enquiries this year alone so some
comment seems appropriate.

AppleWorks files contain Internal
poin tens to other informaUon in the file
and if these pointers are damaged
AppleWorks can no ionger find the
relevant data in the file and so comes
up with the aforementioned message
•getllngerrors'inloadingthefile. These
files are difficult to deal with but some
clever people have devised programs
that will read through the AppleWorks
file and try to pul the pointers right.

Unfortunately only one such enquiry
required this sort of solution, but 111
tell you about the programs never-the-
less since I'm sure that they may be
useful.

The best that I have seen are two
utilities by Harold U I 'ortnoy which are
Shareware programs. The Shareware
versions of the program have limited
facilities. Full versions are available on
payment of the Shareware fee.

We Included the two Shareware
versions. CHANCEF1LE and RESUR-
RECT on ourXtras.P8.No.4 disk. This
can be obtained from the library in the
usual way.

The main program is CHANGE.FILE
which has the main menu listed below:

CHANGE-A-FILE V. 3.00

9- Quit

X- Convert AWP 3.0 to 2.x

W- ... AWP Flic to TXT File

T- ... TXT File to AWP File

D- AWP File Doctor

E- Exhume AWP File

R- Restore ADB File

V- View File fTXT. AWP. etc.)

F- Change File Type/Aux. Type/

Access Code
L Strip Line Feed alter Carriage

Return
C- ... All Control Characters
S ... Specified Control Character
I- Insert Line Feed after Carriage

Return

I can state, however, that E & R work
extremely well in repairing AWP and
ADB flies, even those that are very
badly damaged.

1 Tie main problems that I have found
are due to the corruption of the catalog
blocks on the disket tr almost certainly
caused by ProDOS itself. I reported
some time ago that if there isn"t enough
space on a diskette to save an Apple-
Works file then that file will become

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corrupted and further attempts to use
the diskette only make matters worse!!

Basically all the file names are in the
catalog blocks but their pointers to the
block lists are corrupted and so your
files are Just a collection of blocks of
data which may not be contiguous. If
the Pro DOS delete command has been
used the block pointers may have Just
been reversed and can relatively easily
put back. It is a good idea to have Block
Warden and a copy of Beneath Apple
ProDOS to hand in solving this.

1 have had very good success rates by
re-creating the block list and then
connecting the pointers in the catalog.
The Hie can then be copied to another
diskette. After restoring such a file a
used the Resurrect program from the
listing above. 'Ihis program allows one
to view all the blocks on ones damaged
data diskette and copy them to an-
other diskette. As they are copied the
program actually re-creates a new file!
The ille that I produced would still not
load into AppleWorks but by using the
Change.file prngrsun a perfect retrieval
was obtained.

PFS File:

Do you remember PFS ille? Well this
program was an extremely popular
'flat file' published in the early to mid
1980s. The problem was that the au
thors must have felt that nobody would
ever want to use any other database
because they would only allow the
database to be stored in a most unu-
sual format on pascal formatted 5.25"
diskette. A ProDOS version appeared
in 1985 but there did not appear to be
any conversion utility from the old to
the new!l Now mat AppleWorks data-
base is the favoured system users have
wanted to transfer their PFS database
to AppleWorks - but they cannot.

Eric Sausse recently wished to
transfer a number of PFS Ille data
diskettes to AppleWorks database. He
found t hat CALLA.P.P.L.E published a
little Applesoft program in September
1986, by Wes Felty. that would auto-
matically read PFS data diskettes and
produce an AppleWorks database flic
on another volume. After taking the
Immense trouble to type in the listing
he found that it bombed' after trans
ferring a number of records. Both Eric
and I are convinced that there must be
a bug but are unable to find it. Care
fully reading later editions of the CALL
A.P.P.L.E magazines has not unearthed
any bug fixes.

Do any readers have a peifect work-
ing version of this program, called
PROVERT.2. or any other utility that
will do the Job? Another alternative Is
that some version oi the ProDOS based
PFS file may have had a converter from
Pascal to a ProDOS version.

ft Id m ii t hln and Roger Wagner:

Early in April 1991 Roger Wagner
rang to say that he would be holidaying
in the IJK for a fortnight starting on
Saturday 27 April 1991. To get his

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holiday off to a good start he wished to
present HyperStudio to a user group
preferably on the April 27. Ewcn
Wannop and Steve Morrisby of
Bldinuthin Technologies got together
and quickly arranged to put on the
'Roger Wagner show' at Bldmuthln's
office in Harrow. Middlesex.

Roger Wagner Is an excellent
showman and Steve Morrisby the
provider of a gourmet buffet but you'll
read all about that in William
Watson's report elsewhere in the
issue of Apple 2000 magazine. All I
wish to do here is to extend thanks to
those who made the day possible:

Huw Price. Mark Whelan and Steve
MonrisbyaJlofBIdmuthin technologies.
Ewen Wannop and of course Roger
and Pam Wagner.

Dave Ward - June 91 *

THE MAGIC MACHINE: A HAND-
BOOK OF COMPUTER SORCERY by
A.K. DEWDNEY

1990. W.H. Freeman, paperback
ISBN 07167 2114-9 £1 1.95

A mathematician, finding a lecture
boring, began to draw a spiral of num-
bers:

543G 1 2789 1 After a while he
began to circle the prime numbers and
found, to his surprise, that they lay on
a series of straight lines. To test the

result fully he had to write a computer

program.

Such are the trivia which, in the
hands of a mathematician, can un-
cover some of the mysteries of the
world of numbers.

A.K. Dewdney, a computer scientist
from Ontario, has drawn his material
from mathematical recreations in "Sci-
entific American ". Fractals. Julia sets,
chaos, curves, labyrinths, war games,
logic. Alan Turing and cryptography -
these are some ofthe topics which can
be mined for the benefit of the computer
hobbyist.

In one chapter he explains the prin-
ciple of viruses and proposes a Centre
for Virus Control.

The programs are suitable for any
computer, not only Apples, and are
given, not as basic listings, but as
"algorithms' which the reader must
convert to his own version of basic or
other language. This might be diillcult
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although the projects are graded from
easy (Worms that crawl on the screen),
through Medium (demons of cyclic
space) to hard (Core wars). A Useful list
of suppliers is given and there Is a
bibliography.

For the reader willing to penetrate
the algorithms and the sometimes
flowery language this book will provide
hours of Interest at the keyboard. At
£11.95 it is. by todays standards,
cheap. There Is a hardback edition at
£18.95.

Review by A. J. ROBINSON

«rt

The Apple IIGS:

What the Mac LC Should

Have Been?

Roger Wagner gives his views on the
Macintosh LC versus the llgs

A review of the Mac LC in the
December. 1990 issue of inCider
magazine was subtitled "What the
Apple IIGS Should Have Been?" The
tinderrying Idea was reasonable: If
the Mac LC had been Introduced In
1986, rather than the IIGS. people
would most likely have been fairly
happy wltli tills Lransltlonmachlneto
the Mac. However, history does not
accommodate "what Us", and at tills
point, onecanlegltimatelyask, Tsthe

Apple IIGS what the Mac LC should
have been?"

The unexpected factor today Is the
world of multimedia, and that the
Apple IIGS Is arguably the Ideal mi il-
tirnedia (or hypermedia) machine.
Regardless of whattermyou use, this
environment will be more significant
in the 90's than desktop publishing
was in the 80's, particularly in the
classroom.

The Ideal multimedia machine
should have good color graphics, ex-
cellent sound, and the ability to con-
nect to laserdiscs, CD-ROM. and
VCRs. It should be easy and Intuitive
to use, and as affordable as possible.
You should be able to present your
work, and easily record and transport
it to share with others. TheApple IIG S
has all this and more.

Let's suppose a student creates a
multimedia report, and then presents
it to the class. With the Apple IIGS. a
standard classroom monitor or TV
can be used with no special hard-
ware. Although a TV Isn't great for
displaying 80-column text screens,
multimedia presentations with
graphics, larger text, and video se-
quences from a laserdisc will look
quite nice. On a Mac or PC. a projec-
tion system that can handle true
color is likery to cost $2O0O-$300O. or
more.

Laserdiscs, combined with a video

overlay card, add a very attractive
component, and allow anyone to cre-
ateveryexeitingresults. OntheApple
IIGS, a school can buy a Video Over-
lay Card for about $400. On the Mac
LC (if a card were available) , using the
slot for a video card would preclude
using the He card. Cards similar to
the Video Overlay Card on other Mac
models cost around $2500. (By the
way, services are now available that
will convert your own videotapes to a
laserdisc for $200-$300!)

Onitswaytothat TV or monitor, the
Apple IIGS video can be routed
through any common VCR record-
ing both the audio and video portions
of the presentation, so Mom and Dad
can see what they did at school, and
keep a permanent record of the mo-
ment. Presenters can go to confer-
ences with just a video tape, without
lugging tons of computer hardware.
Macs and PCs require a special
adapter (an "NTSC Converter"), and
these can be an expensive addition.

You heard it here first: The VCR will
be the printer of the 90's. How else to
record sound, animation, graphics,
video and more, and in a form that
anyone can view (virtually all homes
and schools now have VCRs). Once
you're aware of what (he GS can do,
hearing that another computer can't
be recorded with a VCR is like hearing
it cant be attached to a printer. An
article in the October 15. 1990 issue
of BusinessWeek discuss es Ap ple's
generation of computers AFTER the
Mac: "At least two years oil. Jaguar
will include extensive video technol-
ogy and the ability to connect to TVs
and VCRs, Apple employees say."
How great for Apple IIGS owners to
know that they dont have to wait for
the successor to the Mac. They can
have all this now!

Schools that purchase Mac LCs,
hoping for a color multimedia ma-

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chine, will be surprised to discover
that HyperCard on the Mac is only
black & white. A limited ability to
display single color graphics is avail
able, but to just draw a line or two in
color, youTI need a GS with Hyper-
Card or HyperStudio, Wanttousethe
microphone on the LC? Yoi ill have to
leave HyperCard, run a separate pro-
gram, and then go through some
additional steps to Incorporate the
sound. On a GS with HyperStudio,
adding sound is easy and perfectly
Integrated into the overall environ-
ment

Last of all is the working environ-
ment itself. Stackbuilding on the GS
is significantly easier. Thousands of
schools are using the Apple IIGS for
multimedia right now, and projects
created entirely by 1 st graders are by
no means unusual. Home users of
the Apple HGS find it perfect for not
only the kids, but fun for personal-
interest uses from family trees to
hobby-related pro) ects.Tiirough user
groups, mail-order catalogs, and on-
line services like America Online,
CompuServe and GEnie, there are
already almost 200 megabytes of ex-
isting hypermedia applications
(stacks) of every imaginable kind - all
for the Apple IIGS.

What does the future hold for the
Apple HGS? The Apple HGS is not an
outdated technology. The Apple HGS
has features that are not currently
available in any machine, and offers
a solution that couldn't be more rel-
evant to the next revolution in com-
puting. IVe personally travelled ex-
tensively across the U.S. in the last
year, and everywhere I've seen a tre-
mendous amount of interest and en-
thusiasm for what the Apple IIGS
offers. This interest is the result of
recognirfng a practical and immedi-
ate tool. If you havent yet seen what
multimedia and the Apple IIGS are all
about, there couldnt be a better time
than now to find out what the future
holds, and how you can make that
future a present reality. If you already
have an Apple IIGS. then you'll be
happy to know you own the best
machine possible to enter the 90's!

Roger Wagner 4

□ From a letter to inCider/A+ maga-
zine. March. 1991. Permission is
hereby given by the author to anyone
wishing to reprint this letter. Please
include this permission statement
with any reprints.

June 1991

Font Mavin D.I.Y.

Or How To Fill Your Fonts Directory To
Your Hearts Content ...
by Fred Greatorex

Have you ever thought 'gee that's a
nice font, but...' well I suppose a lot of
us have. We like a font but wish that it
looked more like our handwriting or
perhaps a style of calligraphy. Or we
have a font that we like, but it only
comes in, say, 10/20 points and 12/
24 points, and you really need 18 & 36
points.

Well, life isn't that hopeless, Just
download Fontasm from TABBS or
send away for one of the GS public
domain disks that has Fontasm on it.
That will solve part of your problem.
The other part of the problem is how to
keep to the style of font so that when
you edit your 18/3G point font it will
look like your 10/20 and 12/24 point
fonts. T think that the easiest way to do
this is to type up A-Z and special
characters in a painting program like
DeluxePaint and double the size of the
letters so that you can sec how the
individual pixels lie. I wont say that
this Is quick and easy, because it isn't.
There is a lot of time involved in editing
a font, anywhere from 30 minutes to
30 hours {but then the font that I took
30 hours to edit was Chadwell. and I
got carried away with font sizes and
special characters.). It is also very tm
portant to notjudgeyourfirst effort too
critically, because like all things it
lakes pracUce.

Get yourself Fontasm

After downloading Fontasm or a
similar fon t editor (Fontasm is the Best
public domain font editor that I have
found) READ THE DOCUMENTATION.
There may be little quirks about the
software that you do not want to dis-
cover when you have just finished
editing a font and then you find out
that It wont save. Before I start out to
edit a font I do the following two things:

1. Have a printout or diagram of what
I want the font to look like.

2. Have a 'spare' directory to save the
font to while 1 am editing it, instead
of putUng it In the :system: fonts
directory.

First of all if you are creaUng a new
type style you have to figure out the
font height in pixels, and the descent
or how far the things like 'g' and y go
below the baseline. The baseline is
where the bottom of most letters rest.
The way to figure this out is just simple
multiplication and rounding. If a 10
point font is 10 pixels high with a 2
point descent multiply 10 by 1.8 for a
18 point font. 1.2 for 12 point. 1.4 for
14 point and 2.4 for 24 point etc. to give
you the font height and 2 by 1.8 for font
descent. Simple eh? For .5 and under
1 round down to the nearest pixel, .6

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P = 8U

= 81

R = 82

$ = 83

T = 84

11 = 85

V ^ 85

W = 87

X-88

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examples.

10*1.8- 18 points [total font height]

2* 1 .8=3.6 points (round up In 4)

[descent]
18-4=14 points from baseline to top
of font Willi a 4 point descent.

The only hang up I can think of Is if
you don't have a 10 poinl font to figure
from. 1 would adjust the existing sizes,
and rename say a 9 or 12 point font to
10 points. For those of you who are
numerically Inclined, you can figure
out an appropriate formula.

After you have done your math stuil
start up Fontasm. and double click on
a character (fig 1) to edit it.

Fontasm will respond with the edit-
ing screen. l\\e character will display
with a blank pixel before and after the
character for even spacing (fig 2). Do
not leave blank pixels while editing.

Spacing will be taken care of later.

Getting down to the Pixels

To erase the pixels on screen simply
click on a black pixel, to erase a large
block start at a comer with a black
pixel, hold down the option key and
drag diagonally over the area to be
erased. The option key can also be
used to fill In large areas, or draw
straight lines in the same manner.

There is also a 'Grid* option which
draws little blue lines along the pixel
borders. This is a really neat feature,
and is really helpful if you can And fine
graph paper to draw your font on, and
then lust copy it into the machine. It
will also help you in J udgi ng height and
width.

Figs 2-5 are the letter "b* in various
stages of editing. Note that you can go
past the left and right borders (and

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below the baseliae) Just remember to
change the character width (fig 6). This
dialog box will ask you the characters
origin, which is best left a Zero, and the
characters end. which is the width in
pixels. There are no set guidelines for
with, just what looks best to you.

Tricks and Tlp»

1. There are a lot of letters that arc
similar to each other in most fonts like
o. b. c. d. e. g. p and cj. I like lo edit the
'o" ilrst. copy It to the 'b' and 'd' and add
the back', copy to the c* and erase part
oft he front copy t he 'r ' to the V and add
the bar in the middle of the 'e'. then
copy 'b* to 'p' and change the ascending
back to a descending tail, and the
same lor *d' and 'q*.

In renaming fonts pick a name that
you like, and or describes the font. A
good example of this is the 'Artdeco'
font. It looks 'Art Deco' A bad example
of tiiis is the ■Camelof font. It doesn't
look very 'King Arthurish* nor is it a
'Calligraphic' font

I higlily encourage you lo 'double
lont' and smooth out the double size
font for "Best" quality printing. When
you edit a double size font all you have
to do is 'smooth the rough edges'. This
takes a fracuon of the time that it takes
to edit a font Initially and it will pay off
in a smooth looking printout.

There are a couple of articles that I
have read about fonts that I highly
recommend. The first one was in Open-

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Fig. 6

Apple/A2 Central on fonts. It was very
informative. The only problem was that
I couldn't find It to quote the volume
and issue number for this article. The
second one is not Just on fonts but is
entertaining readingjust the same it is
Metafont, Metamathematics. and
Metaphysics by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
It was originally printed In Visible
language and later reprinted in his
book Mctamagical Thcmas [Basic
Books. Inc. 1985. ISBN 0-465-04540-
5]- This is a great book, but should only
be read in small doses.

Fred Greatorex 4

Footnotes:

1 . 1 refer to point sizes 10/20 in this
manner, because when you print In
best quality GSOS looks for a double
point size to print at fifty percent re
duction . This gives a very smooth look
to any font. It just seems to take twice
as long to print.

2. Herman Zapf who created the
typeface Optima took seven years to
design this iL But he didn't have an
Apple.

3. To create a dou ble size font , like 24
point I suggest editing a 12 point font
and then using the Fontasms 'double
font' option. After doubling, edit out
the pixels that make it look too blocky.

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ProSel 1 6 - 8.67

Dave Ward g ives us an update on
Glen Bredon's one man compendium
of disk utilities

Since I last reviewed ProSel 16 ver-
sion 8.58 in (he February 1991 Issue of
Apple 2000 magazine the commercial
version consisting of a manual and
disket te has been launched by Char! ie's
Applcsccds of San Diego California. A
copy of the manual and disk (ProSel 16
vS.fifi) has been kindly sent to us by
Charlie's Appleseeds so that we can
complete the review. Since receiving
the package ProSel 16 version 8.67
has appeared and will be used for the
purposes of this review.

A listing of the llles on the /ProSel
diskette shows some new files have
been added since version 8,58. The
disk is now so full that there is now no
longer any room left for the text file
version of the manual!

Figure 1 shows the main menu for
ProSel 16 version 8.67 which if com
pared with the main menu for ProSel
16 version 8.58 in the February
magazine differs only in the Text Edi-
tor.

What has changed?

The main differences between ProSel
16 versions 8.58 and 8.67 are listed
below:

1 1 The bound manual.

2} The Text Editor.

3| Backup/Restore function offers
better support for olhcr 3.5"
drives.

4} Mix 'n Match.

5} Better support for ProDOS 8
programs for users of the Appoint-
ment Calendar.

6) Virus deteclion.

The Manual;

'ProSel 16 is a 'Hard disk manage-
ment system'.' The new manual
proudly states the above on its front
cover. The manual is a 147 page ad
hesive bound book which Is basically a
compilation of the old test-file manual,
the Number Cruncher text-file manual
and other add itions. The man i lal covers
very adequately all aspects of the us-
age of ProSel 16. All the subjects are
covered in great detail yet are quite
easy to read and understand. An ap
pcndLx contains summaries and quick
references but also takes two pages
describing ProDOS error codes and

June 1991

GS/OS system codes; very useful.
Reading the manual is definitely re-
quired because quite a few of the ProSel
16 commands are not intuitive but
none-the-less easy to use and memo-
rise.

The Text Editor:

This is the last large module that was
added to ProSel 1 6. 1 1 appears to be an
upgraded version of the Merlin 1 6 plus
editorand isscrollable in ibur directions
but has a maximum of 255 characters
horizontally. It differs from most
modern editors in that it docs not
support "word wrap' but each line is
terminated with a carriage return. This
editor is very useful for creating script
files. The editor is very convenient to
use as 11 is virtually a key press away
and appears instantly, This editor has
most of the features you would expect
in an editor including cut. copy and
paste; global and local iind and replace
etc. etc. There are also unusual features
such as a 4000 step undo buffer in
case you made a mistake 10 minutes
ago! This Is a veiy good editor which I

use generally for writing lellers and
reviews. It is stated in the manual This
manual was written and printed, photo-
ready, with this text editor/ II

It is my opinion that many users will
feel that this text editor Is missing one
important feature: WORD WRAP.
ProSel was written for Glen's personal
use and the text editor is no exception;
Glen doesn't have the time for word
wrap. The main purpose of this editor
is, of course, to write and edit scripts
which definitely don't need word wrap
and require a carriage return at each
line end. Still users would benefit by
the option to word wrap: text editor is
right on hand and could almost cut out
the need for a word processor.

I am not sure if this is a bug but using
back arrow with control, the usual way
to speed up the cursor deletes the text!

There is one obscure bug. however,
which involves the delete Key. If you
are on any line and press the delete key
the character in front of the cursor is
deleted. The exception is if you place
the cursor at the top left-hand corner
of the screen and arc also not on line 1 .
Ifyou then press Delete key the program
bombs Into the monitor.

Backup/Restore:

Backup/Restore function now works
periectJy with the AMR BOOK drives
and also with the Applied Engineering
800K and 1600K drives. Although
Backup/Restore is said to be com-
patible from one version to another
after the big change in version 8.2 I
have occasionally found problems. For
instance a backup produced on an
Apple 3.5" drive using version 8.65
would not restore on any drive under
version 8.67. Whenever I update the
version of ProSel on my Apple Ilgs 1
update the three Hies listed below and

Fig.l

ProSel-16 8,67
Copyright 1991 by Glen E. Bredon

E - Editor
U - Utilities
F - File Finder
V - Volume repair
P - Show prefixes
II - Hani shutdown
C - Cold shutdown
S - Shell command

R - Refresh screen
B - Backup/Restore

- Optimize volume
X - Exchange screens

1 - Information desk
H - Modify parameters
Z - Zapi block editor

A - Appointment calendar
H - Number cruncher
f - Text Editor

Friday lB-May-N 8:44:34 PI!

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also make new backups of those areas
of my hard disk that I normally do after
their use. It Is also a good Idea to save
older versions of ProSel 16 just in case
there is a problem; you may Ihen re-
store from a backup made using an
earlier version.

START

PS.I6.TO.8

APPOINT.CDA

Mix n Match:

This is a separate utility which al-
lows users of ProSel 1 6 who only have
small disk drives to make custom
versions of ProSel 1G containing only
those modules that they regularly use.
This utility offers no help to hard disk
users, though.

Appointment Calendar:

ProDOS 8 was not designed in the
same way as GS/OS to deal with in-
terrupts and certain ProDOS fl pro-
grams do not like this environment
andbalkat the Appointment Calendar's
interrupts. The. main problem is with
communication programs but some
other ProDOS 8 programs seem to give
problems because they were not de-
signed to deal correctly with interrupts.
To counter these problems you can
specify that the Appointmcn t Calendar
be switched out whilst you use your
PmDOS 8 program by placing a - in the
PREFIX specification. FromProSel 16

version 8.65 Clen has attempted to
improve the situation and placing— in
the PREFIX specification will turn off
the audible Appointment Calendar
warning which will make it more com-
patible with many IYoDOS 8 programs.

Vlrua detection:

ProSel 1 6 acts as a gatekeeper against
at least four of the known Apple Hgs
virus programs. For obvious reasons
Glen Bredon does not give much in-
formation regarding this matter.
However, if you look at Figure 1. the
listing of the I*roSel 16 diskette you will
see a folder RX which contains infor-
mation about Glen's Virus medicine
program. In that folder there is a file
Defanged.virus. Whilst this is not a
real virus IVoSel 16 refuses to load it!
Don't expect ProSel 16 to detect new

virus Infections. Glen rightly gives lit-
tle away about how his virus detection
works so it is Just possible that poorly
written new virus programs will be
detected.

Otherareas have also been upgraded
during the last few revisions Including
the volume optimiser which is a very
fast robust program. It rarely takes
more that 60 minutes to optimise my
32 megabyte hard disk.

Conclusion:

With the introduction of the bound
manual ProSel 16 has at last reached
maturity and it is unlikely that any

new modules or largescale changes
will be made. However, there are likely
to be many more revisions, not be-
cause ofbugs. but because Glen Bredon
Is a perfectionist. ProSel 16 is veiy
good value for money as you could pay
as much for any pair of modules from

olher sources.

Dave Ward

ProSel- 16 Is written by;

DrGIen K bredon 521 Slate Koad

Princeton NJ 08540

ProSel i 6 may be purchased from:

ClockTower PO Box 1417

London N8 9PP

Price:

3.5" disk with manual £60.00 at most.

A2 Central PO Box 1 1250

Overland Park Kansas 66207 USA

lYice:

$85.00 with free surface shipping.

Shipping by airmail may cost more.

ProSel 1 6 may be upgraded as follows:
By sending your diskette and $10.00
or $25.00 if you want the printed
manual. UK purchasers should add
$5.00 for shipping. 4

Endnote: ProSel has reached version
8.69. Users of TABBS are able to
download recent updates to ProSel.
These will only update genuine origi-
nal copies of the master diskette. *

APC Uninterruptible
Power Supply

a review by Dave Ward

EversIncelVehadacomputerl have
always dreaded a power cut whilst the
computer is writing to the disk, well it
hasn't happened, in about 1 1 years,
yet!! I tend to keep a lot of backups so
I don't suppose that it will be a real
problem when it actually does occur. It
is the commercial users who treat the
computers and software as tools and
generate large quantities of data. A
wreaked hard disk would likely cause
them large problems. These
uninterruptible power supplies are a
trifle expensive so your data also has to
be rather valuable.

The unit kindly loaned to me by Alan
Finn of Clocktower was a European
230 volt version. Then 22 page manual
only mentions the product for use with
an Apple Macintosh II; IheApplellgsis
not mentioned anywhere. After un-
packing the unit I found that it fitted
perfectly under the Apple lifts box Just
as if it had been made for it! The height
of the unit is about 7cm so it doesn't
add loo much height. The front of the
UPS Is chamfered with 5 lights. At the
back are: a on/off switch, a test but-
ton, a circuit breaker, bank of 4 DIP
switches, a 230v mains Input and four
output sockets. All mains connectors

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use male/female coflee-pot connec-
tors. Of the four outlets the left most
viewing from the back is a master
switch. I plugged my Apple Hgs into
this socket. Peripherals are supposed
to be plugged into the slave sockets.
After plugging in and switching on
every thing worked correctly; none of
the slave sockets being used. 1 then left
the unit for a day to charge up.

Next day I just used the machine as
normal - nothing seemed to be differ-
ent. The next thing to do was to try
peripherals in the slave sockets, by the
way the manual tells one not to plug in
LASER printers as they use too much
power. When I switched on nothing
happened, either there was a problem
here or the Apple Hgs did not draw
enough power but the manual did
refer to this power load problem. Nor-
mally the unit detects the power drain
when switched on and then powers up
the slaves - otherwise nothing at all!! I
flipped one of the DIP switches to over-
ride this feature and everything worked
ok-

Now to test the device:

Switching ofTat the mains has not
effect upon the Apple Hgs. immediately
but the UPS unit certainly lets you
know every 30 seconds or sol! I also
managed to get a fuse to blow which
again had no effect. I might add that
while these unthinkable things were
happening the computer was
optimising a disk!!

Apple2000

The ideaof this Uninterruptible Power
Supply Is to allow one to complete a
tasksuch as updatingadisk file without
damage to the disk and file. Under the
circumstances less than a minute will
be enough. 1 left the UPS without power
and found that after 43 minutes a very
rapid beep sequence started Indicating
that the power was almost drained. I
could attach a lot more peripherals to
this unit and still get a good result.

After a week or so I returned the unit
but on arrival it was completely dead
due to the transformer falling off be-
cause the unit had been upside down
during part of its transit! Alan Finn
tells mc that the correct name for this
device is a dropping transformer.
Hinmin.... American Power Conversion
are now aware of this.

Conclusion;

Simple: if your data Is worth more
than £4 00.00 plus VATthenyou should
consider buying this product it will let
you sleep at night.

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ration 132 Fairgrounds Road P.O. Box
278 West Kingston Rl 02892

Available from:

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London N8 9PP

Price: Less than £400.00 plus VAT

There is a less powerful Macintosh SE
version at less than £300.00 plus VAT.

June 1991

Medley Version 2.0

Peter Stark looks_at t he latest version of
this desktop publishing program

Introduc lion

Medley is a veiy flexible desktop pub-
lishing program for the Apple 1IGS. It is
excellent for word processing, artwork,
and page layout, and has many uselul
facilities - some of them quite unusual.

In the August 1989 issue of Apple
2000. Idescribedan earlierversion (v. 1 .00)
of Medley. Tills present review is about a
later version (v. 2.0) and how it compares
with the previous one. Some of the main
features of Medley are also summarised
again for the benefit oFreaders whodo not
have the earlier review.

What is supplied, and what you need
Medley Is supplied on four non-pro-
tcctcd 3.5" disks (Startup. Program.
Dictionary, and Clip Art). Also provided
are: a 254-page manual; a 30-page tu-
torial; a quick reference card: and a 16-
page supplement which describes the
new features of Version 2.0. All of these
documents arc well produced, and are
written clearly and informatively; they
come in a strong ring binder with a slip
case.

To use Medley Version 2.0. you need a
IIGS with at least 1.125 Megabytes of
memory (the earlier version needed 1.25
Meg) and at least one 3.5" disk drive. A
second 3. 5" drive or a hard drive would be
very useful.

Differences between Versions 2.0 and
l.OO of Medley

In my earlier review. I pra Lsed many of
Medleys features, but I commented on
its relative slowness. I am glad to be able
to say that Version 2.0 is a good step
forward as regards both speed and per
fomiance. It is compatible with CS/OS
and IIGS System Soawarc 5.0,

and it runs decidedly more rapidly
than the previous version. Many opera-
tions, such as scrolling text or opening
and closing windows, are noticeably faster
and smoother. 11 le type-ahead speed
and start up times arc also be ttcr. Another
advantage is that printing in the Con-
densed' mode has been improved a lot In
this mode, text is compressed vertically
when printed, butlts width is unchanged;
the result looks more attractive. fHie art
areas are printed out with the correct
sizes and proportions). Clear details are
given in the Version 2.0 Supplement to
the Medley Manual. With the earlier ver-

sion ofM edley. pagination was sometimes
a problem when printing in the Con-
densed mode; this difficulty seems to
liavr hern resolved.

As before, the Ibnts which are access!
ble in use are the ones which are located
on the Medley Startup disk. Since Sys-
tem Software 5.0 takes up more room on
disk, the Medley 2.0Slartupdlsk contains
fewer fonts than the earlier version did.
However, additional fonts are provided in
afolderonthe Prograindisk.soLhatyou
can modify your set-up by swapping
fonts between these t wodlsks if you wish.
Incidentally: I found that an alternative Is
to put a 'Load a Font' New DeskAccessory
(which is not a Medley product) onto the
Medley Startup disk. With the aid of this
NUA. additional fonts from other disks
can be loaded and used while working
with Medley. Of course, if you have a hard
disk, you can simply add whatever fonts
you wish to die "Fonts' folder.

Word Processing

Text can be typed directly into Medley.
or else you can import AppleWorks word
processor flies (except those from Apple
Works Version 3). Text (ASCII) files from
AppleWorks v.3 or from other word
processing programs can also be im-
ported, but some of their original for-
matting is

likely to be lost. Another worthwhile
feature is that it is possible to have up to
ten different documents on the Medley
desktop at any one time, and it Is easy to
switchrromonctoanothcr.TTicmaximurn
document length is 32 pages (except
when you Intend to print in Condensed
mode - in which case the limit is 18-24
pages, depending on the size of your
paper). Wherever you wish, you can
change fonts, type sizes, and type styles.
A host of other features are available:
super- and subscripts: cut, copy, and
paste; find; replace; manual or auto hy-
phenation: various kinds of tab stop, lab
leader, text justification, and word
wrapping (horizontal or vertical): hori-
zontal and verticalon-screen rulers; page
nurnbcringin\ , arioiis.slylesarKlpositioris;
headers and footers; and many more. An
unusual and helpful feature is the Undo"
command, which lets you cancel up to
ten of the last changes made to the
document. There Is also a 'Redo* facility.
The Dictionary disk allows the use of

Medley's spell checker and thesaurus,
both of which work well. With the "Show
This f^ge' command, you ran see (but
not alter) small representations of the
pages of the document that you are
wor king on.

Art Areas and Page Parts

With Medley, you can very easily create
'art areas' in your docume nts. A powerful
and valuable feature is that these areas
can be of almost any shape - Including
polygons that you design yourself. You
can move art areas, change their size and
proportions, and even convert them from
one type of shape into another If you
wish. Graphics can be imported Into
these areas (e.g. from the Medley Clip Art
disk), and there is a good selection of
paint tools as well. TVxt wrajxs round I he
art areas, whatever their shapes. By
inserting tall chin rectangular (empty) art
areas into your text, you can divide it into
two or more columns, for instance.

Another really useful point is that any
'art area* can be changed so that it will
hold text Instead of artwork. The result
trig areas (which are then called "Page
Parts') now function as miniature pages:
text wraps inside them, and can How
from one to another.

Overall comments

Medley is a powerful program with a lot
of useful features, yet is still enjoyably
easy to use. Many help screens are
available, but I soon found that I hardly
needed to refer to them any more. ITie
quality of the printed output can be very
pleasing. Compared with the earlierver-
sion of Medley that I tested some time
ago. Version 2.0 is a real improvement,
particularly as regards both speed and its
Condensed printing mode. It ran well on
an imaecelerated tIGS, and was even
more enjoyable to use on a IIGS fitted
with an accelerator (I used a Zip GSX in
some of my trials). I was pleased by tl lis
latest version of Medley, and can cer-
tainly recommend It

Peter Stark *

info

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June 1991

Appie2000

Tutor-Tech

Terry Cymbalisty takes us on a voyage
of discovery ....

Tutor-Tech is an "Authoring Sys-
tem" available for 128kEnhancedApple
//es and above. One also needs at
least one 5 1/4" disk drive, an 80
column card and some form of pointing
device being either a joystick or pref-
crablya mouse. (Thcjoystlckresponsc
tends to be a bit "Jerky".) On the
surface, this product looks exactly like
HyperCard, which runs on expensive
Macintoshes. Tutor-Tech provides a
menu-driven system for creating
frames of text and graphics .

FiH box

Wit!*!

Fit* Edit ri« SmcIU f»t FiHari blv liw

Tho toolbox

Menu bar

Tho cursor

You can also put buttons or text-
response Melds on the frames. As wit h
HyperCard, buttons have a destination
frame that is loaded when you click
the button. The text-response field, on
the other hand, leads to one of two
frames depending on whether the re-
sponse that has been typed in is what
the author said it should be, ie correct
or wrong.

HyperCard comes with a full-blown
programming language. HyperTalk. As
SUCn, very sophisticated applications
can be created. Tutor-Tech on the
other hand is limited to the application
type that is simplest In rrealr in Hyper-
Card, ie collections of frames that you
can link together with buttons. Tutor-
Tech stack sizes are limited by avail-
able RAM, although a complete lesson
(or stack) can be 250 frames long.
HyperCard stacks arc disk resident
and as such are only limited by the size
of mass storage available.

The Tutor-Tech package comes with
a two hundred page spiral-bound
manual. I thought that it was well
presented and set out in a clear man-
ner. The manual begins with a brief
overview of the product, highlighting
the main features. *lhe manual goes
on to Include a tutorial section, where

Right

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moi.

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torn

Buttons can also increase or de-
crease student's scores. Hence the
teacher is able to create stacks which
contain questions to which the stu-
dent has to give either a correct or
Incorrect response. The structure of
the stack hence is determined by the
responses of the student. The stack is
Interactive!

22/^

the teacher is encouraged to create a
stack as he works through the tuto-
rial. Most of the key features are used
and the teacher (ie me) quickly learns
how to use the product. I feel that the
best way to learn a new product is to
create something with it and one is
quickly doingthls. The product Is very
intuitive to use, in my opinion, and I

Apple2000

was soon adding my own modifica-
tions to the tutorial examples. Fur-
ther sections In the manual Include a
reference section for both the teacher
and the student and a reference for the
optional Grader disk. There is also an
appendix which mentions Tu tor-Tech s
compatibility with external devices
such as videodisc players. Apple's Video
Overlay Card, networks, speech
synthesisers and the use of RAM cards.

As menUoned previously, a Grader
disk is available as an option. The
software on this diskallows the teacher
to create grades for his or her stu-
dents. Firstly, the teacher creates a

scores file
on the stu-
dent disk.
When the
student
uses the
stack, he
identifies
himself,
then the
student's
responses
to the ques-
tions within
the stack
are recorded. Then the teacher runs
the programs on the Grader disk to
produce grades for each student. The
pace of each student through the stack
is monitored, and the teacher is able to
monitor this. Various graphs showing
averages can be produced.

Tutor-Tech comes on three 5 1/4"
floppy disks. A teacher's disk, a stu-
dent's disk and an examples disk. The
examples include various samples of
clip-art and the Red-Tape game. This
is a sophisticated adventure type game,
and is an example of what may be
achieved quite easily with Tutor-Tech.
Other stacks on the disk include les-
sons in astronomy and geometry.
"Stack Exchange" is a i ie wsle t ter which
is available from the manufacturers of
Tutor-Tech and contains details of
stacks from other teachers and devel-
opers. Also tips on creating animation
and music in stacks are included In
the sample issue included In the box In
which "lutor- Tech came. Tips on how
to market one's created stacks are
mentioned.

In summary I would say that Tutor-
Tech Is a super little program. It
proves that the Apple // computer Is
not dead and capable of many wonder-
ful things. I would guess that it's main
application would be In the educa-
tional field. But since this country's
schools use the more "sophisticated"
BBC computers then its applications
here arc limited. But having said all
this, it would be an ideal present for
one's children. There would be no
reason why the children should not
create their own stacks. In fact It
would form the basis for an excellent
multi media database.
Terry Cymbaliaty «

June 1991

Rastan GS

John Kishimoto
fights the warrior
Lord Rastan ....

Introduction

Described as an adventure into
a myth ical world of danger, Ras tan
GS is an excellent implementation
of the action/arcade genre. You
are Rastan. a warrior lord, engaged
in an adventure to free the land of
Lograth from the dragon's evil rule.

The Game

As in many games, it is often
very difficult to convey the at-
mosphere inherent in this type of
software.

The graphics and animation im-
plemented in this game are equal
to or better than the more popular
games orientated computers. It is
also reassuring to note that an
accelerator isn't necessary for
smooth animation to take place.
The characters and background
are very detailed and takes full
advantage of the capability of the
GS. As a beginner in the arcade
type of ftames. I have not made
significant headway into the game,
so cannot define its limits. The
play area in this horizontally
scrolling 'hack & slay* game seems
to consist of 3 sections per round.
Each section is an extension of
the previous, ranging from a
desolate scenery, to a castle and
its winding corridors. Life threat-
ening danger exists everywhere,
the most devious being a moving
wall pushing you inexorably to-
wards a flaming pit. Ii'seasy to die
in this game. A bar graph shows
your current status and a beating
'artery' with accompanying heart
beat sound effects provides a
suitable visual/ auditory indica-
tion of your health. The faster the
beat, the weaker you are.

The creatures ranged against
you wield everything from a club
to a flaming sword. To help you in
your quest, various additional

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weapons can be collected, often
located in very awkward sites.
Fortunately, accuracy with a joy-
stick isn't a prerequisite to enjoy-
ing this game.

*
Controls

Both joystick and keyboard can
be used in Rastan. By pressing
Open Apple-Control-Escape, a
control panel Is revealed. Tlie panel
allows calibration of the Joystick,
control of sound and a stereo card.

Control byjoystick is simple and
preferred, allowing full control of
Rastan and his weapons. Jump-
ing and climbing can be achieved
with case, including fightingwhile
hanging from a rope.

Finally

Produced by Taito. Rastan is
supplied on 2 x 3 . 5" co py protect ed
disks. Although this will run on a
IMbGS, 1.25Mb is recommended
for complete sound effects.

An excellent arcade game, this
is one which deserves a place in
your games library.

Warning

I have been advised, by my
dealer, that Taito will no longer
support the GS. It would appear,
therefore, that supplies will be
limited to those that have already
been produced. This will also ap-
ply to Arkanoid II and QIX GS.
John Kishimoto «

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GS/OS 5.0.4

Dave Ward gives us the lowdown on
the latest llgs operatin g system

The Apple llgs finally got its true 16
bit operating system with the intro-
duction of GS/OS system disk. 4.0 .
but some of the promised features
were not fully implemented. The
promised GS/OS was Introduced with
system disk 5.00 which was soon
replaced by system disk 5.02, due to
the presence of bugs. ProSel-16hasa
command that shows the GS/OS ver-
sion number on the screen. When this
command is executed from System

5.02 the following results: -

System 5.02

Tfie current GS/OS version number

is $8301.

It is a PROTOTYPE release.

The MAJOR release number is 3.

The MINOR release number is 1.

Notice that this is a prototype re
lease. We had to wait for system disk

5.03 and the GS/OS version number,
according to ProSel-16 is shown be-
low:

System 5.03

The current GS/OS version number

is $0303.

It is a FINAL release.

The MAJOR release number is 3.

The MINOR release number is 3.

Notice that the systemdiskversions
do not reflect the GS/OS version
numbers! Very confusing.

The reason for the new version was
lo tie up a few loose ends remove any
known bugs and to enhance the printer
drivers in regard to their speed. Pro-
DOS 8 got a new version, 1 . 9 which is
described below;

ProDOS 8 update

ProDOS 8 users will find that there
is a new version of the file P8 in the
System folder. On a pure ProDOS 8
diskette this file would be renamed
PRODOS. The file is now at version
1 .9 but Apple programmers overlooked
to update it's number from 1.8! Users
will, however, be delighted because
Apple Computer Inc. have at last made
the Quit code user- friendly. When
you quit you are now presented with
a similar screen to Bird's better BYE
or Glen Bredon's Quit routine. Here is

what a screen looks like:-

/DISK.NAMK/

PRODOS
BASIC. SYSTEM

RETURN : Select | TAB : ChqVol | ESC : Back

The top line shows the volume name
of the disk from which you quitted.
Below are shown the names of any
executable files including folders
(subdirectories) which have a folder
icon on their left. The bottom line
shows the commands at your dis-
posal. On entry the top filename is
highlighted and others can be chosen
by moving the up-down arrow keys.

It looks like there will be another
version of ProDOS 8 before too long as
the date table runs out at 1 January
1992 and on classic Apple //comput-
ers with time cards that do not count
years you will see 1 January 1988!
Some tune during the first half of
1 99 1 Hotline news will provide a patch
to correct this problem.

System 5.04

Unfortunately during the writing of
this review AppleComputer Inc. found
that their precious new printer driv-
ers had bugs if available memory in
the system was low and a new version,
System disk 5.04 was introduced to

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(lx these. Ewen tells me thai he found

another bu g in System 5. 03 in relation
to the event manager which caused a
clock on one of his screens to vanish.

Installing System 5.04 and then
checking the version with ProSel-16
reveals that it thinks that it is the
same release as version 5.03!! There
is probably a good reason for this as
GS/OS may have not changed but
printer drivers or other secondary files
will have changed.

GS/OS will also show the version
when your boot up. To do this press a
key quickly before the super high
resolution graphics screen with its
thermometer appears - then the fol-
lowing text screen will show current
version of GS/OS on the top line with
the current version numbers of the
GS/OS modules. The system will con-
tinue to load you then press the space
bar when commanded to finish load-

When you receive a copy oi the new
System 5.04 which consists of two
diskettes: System. Disk and its com-
panion the system. tools diskette you
should use the Installer to install all
Uie system files and any drivers etc.
that your system requires since these
may have been changed. (See note

below). Remember that you musLboot

the System. Disk that comes with Sys-
tem 5.04 since GS/OS will not let you
write most system files to the dlskyou
have booted from. The reason for this
is that GS/OS maintains certain files
'open' and any changes to them could
lead to problems. Also certain infor-
mation on the diskette is stored in a
memory cache which is used forquick
access instead of always reading the
disk. Changing the disk may leave the
memory cache *in the air'.

Note:

TTiere are more changes that have
been made and it goes without saying
that you should be using the latest
version of the GS Operating System
unless there are good reasons for not
doing so. Updating GS/OS by Just
copying over a few files Is rather risky
since one cannot be sure that Just
because the dates are unchanged the
file contents haven't. I always update
by booting up the latest system dis-
kette and then using the Finder to
delete the whole of the system on my
hard disk. I then use the installer on
the SYSTEM.TOOLS disk to install
the latest version.

GS/OS system 6.00 has been ru-
moured for quite a while. It is an Apple
Computer Inc. policy to support die
Apple // line so System 6.00 Is almost
a certainty, What new will it offer and
might it have some of the excellent
features of (he Macintosh system 7.00:
could it arrive 'ere system 7.00?

3 The twu System disks numbered
2GS037 and 2GS03S are available
from the library. They may also be
downloaded from TABBS. * «

June 1991

Salvation Wings

Dave Ward laun ches himself into the
air and gains his wings against all odds

Since the Apple Ilgs was introduced
in late 198G the system has required
users to connect larger and larger disk
drives to utilise the system efficiently.
In the early days of ProDOS-I6 one
3.5" diskdrive would be sufficient later
with the introduction of the true '16-
bit' operating systems GS/OS version
4.0 and 5.0x even two 3.5" disk drives
are hardly enough to use the system
efficiently and a hard disk drive is
almost a prerequisite. With such large
volumes the ability to choose ihe pro-
gram one wants has become a problem
in Itself, The answer is the program
launcher!

Apple
Computer
Inc. were
first in with
t h e
MouseDesk
a ProDOS 8
system
which was
later re-
placed with
the Finder
based upon
the Macin-
t o s h
Finder. The
Finder Is a
first rate

program but for most users requires
quite a bit of poinUng with the mouse
and clicking to launch the program
required. Finder fanatics may well
disagree with the above as they can,
with some hard work, make It a little
easier use in this respect. With this
apparent weakness of the Finder a
number of third party programmers
have produced program launchers for
the Apple Ilgs and the classic Apple /
/computers, too. I*ro5el was one of the
ffrst and differs from most of the other
Program launchers + disk manage-
ment systems in that it uses text/
keyboard methods familiar to classic
Apple // computer users. The others
use the Desktop and mouse interface
familiar to Macintosh users: Wings is
one of these.

U Wings comes in three incarnations;

Wings MintWings MicroWings

June 1991

Vvfyri Suptrmarvu Spitfire

These will be described in detail be
low:

Wings:

Salvation Wings published by Vitesse
is described in the manual as a Disk
Management/Program launcher which
we wiD be reviewing below: -

As advised in the manual which I
actually read before using the product!
I made a copy of the diskette which is
not copy-protected. Using this copy I
renamed the START program in the
SYSTEM directory on my hard diskette

toFlNDER
and then
copied
across the
STA RT
program
from the /
Wings.A/
System/
fo 1 d e r .
This
method
works
quite well
but there
Is a ver-
sion of the
"*•»' Installer,

by Apple
Computer, on the second diskette that
does the same automatically. & is
simpler and quicker than rny method
above! You must do this from another
diskette since GS/OS won't allow one
to mess with its important system files
which it considers OPEN when GS/OS
is operating.

Alter this I re booted my hard disk
and the following desktop screen ap-
pealed, see Screen 1.

QThe main screen is divided Into four
parts:

1} The menu bar with which most
Apple Ilgs users air familiar.

lj The window is divided into three
columns:

2| The left most column contains the
two sets of eight launching buttons on
this the current page. If you click on
the box just to the right of Page: a box
opens lo allow you to choose from all

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eight pages available. Note that this
gives you a maximum of 128 launch-
ing buttons.

5} The centre column Is a scroll box
showing the files in the current folder
(directory) which is displayed on top of
this box. You can go to the parent
folder by clicking on the folder name on
top of the box or to a sibling folder by
double clicking on its name in the file
list in the box.

4) The right most column is a list of
useful buttons. The most important
arc the Diskbutton that cycles through
the disks (volumes) on-line one-at-a-
tirne each click on this button. The
button with rounded corners Is the
action button, in this case DELETE.
Note that this is also reflected in the
screen title which is Delete mode. If
you look at screen 1 you will see that
clickingaflle in the scroll box highlights
it ready for deletion. Fortunately 1 didn't
choose Wings! Delete mode is just one
of many available and can be changed
by pulling down on the File entry on
the menu bar.

These are listed below:
Mode Key

Auto

0A A

Launch

OA L

File Info

OA I

Rename

OA R

Delete

OA D

Undelete

OA Z

View Graphics

OA G

Play Sounds

OA S

Text Processor

OA E

File Utilities
Volume Utilities

OA U

Vitesse Salvation Products

MOASoficat have kindly supplied
Apple 2000 with three of the Sal
vation disk management packages.
Currently there are five products in
the range:

11 Salvation Wings - Program
launcher and file management
system.

21 Salvation Guardian Hard
disk backup system.

3) Salvation Exorciser • Virus
detector.

4) Salvation Renaissance - Disk
optimiser.

5) Salvation

All five packages consist of 1 or 2
800k 3.5" diskettes a manual and
advertising literature about other
Vitesse products. All these are sup-
plied in a 17cm X 25cm X 4cm
cardboard box in a white sleeve
brightly describing the particular
product.

We will be reviewing these five
products over the next few issues of

Apple 2000 magazine. 4

When Wings is entered or re entered
after finishing an application the Auto
mode is active.

Whatever mode is chosen the pro-
gram dims those file entries that are
inconsistent with that mode. Also
folders are not dimmed because they
may contain files consistent with the
chosen mode: when clicked open and
display the ftles in that folder.

In this mode the program tries to
determine the type of file that has been
highlighted in the central column and
then proceeds to execute it. Forinstancc
a PIC file will be displayed on the
screen as It would if you had chosen
VlewGraphics option. This works quite
well but can be fooled; for instance
BINary files are not always executable
programs. Wings might try to launch
such a file and a crash could result.
There is a way to tell Wings not to
launch BINary files, though.

Mode File Info:

None of the files in the scroll box will
be dimmed with this option. See screen
4. Clicking on boxes on the right
hand of screen 4 will allow one to
change those file attributes.

FUe utilities:

Invoking the File Utilities produces a
typical screen; see screen 5. This is an
interesting way of dealing with files In
that both the source and destination
folder contents are displayed as two
scroll boxes. If you've used other file
utility programs this might take a little
time to get used to, however. I found it
to be quite a pleasant way of copying
files from one folder to another, etc.

Voliune Utilities: See screen G:

Programming Buttons:

Since this Is a program launcher
you'll want to add new button defini-
tions from time to time and perhaps
alter or move existing definitions.
Wings allows you to do all these
tilings very quickly and simply. De-
fining buttons can be automatic and
there won't be many occasions where
you will need to use the manual
mode. The most common alteration
required is to change the name chosen
by Wings! Moving button definitions
is really easy too and you can even
move them between pages.

MiniWings:

This is Just a program launcher and
is considerably different than Wings.
First it only launches programs and
the screens are completely different.
Many users might find the construc-
tion of MiniWings screens to be a mite
dil lie nil even though the method of
construction is very well documented.
This is because script files (read pro-
grams) have to be written before
MiniWings can be used. There are two
ways in which MiniWings can be used:
l}The GS/OS system file MiniWings
together with a script file can be used

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as a program launching system.
Mini Wings uses this script flic to de-
termine the launching screen.

2) Alternatively you can use a com-
piling program MW.COMPILER to
compile a script file into a GS/OS
system file that can be used as a stand-
alone program launcher.

The Script language 1 found difficult
to remember even though it has only
thirteen different statements i t is quite
a powerful language. For Instance
there arc 10 different backgrounds to
choose from or you may load in your
own background stored In a 640 by
200 Supcr-Rcs PIC file on your disk.
You can also define the position of
messages and the launching buttons
on the screen to produce really neat
custom-made launching programs.
You may use the MiniWings program
to test you scripts prior to compiling
them.

I quickly emended a demonstration
script file to produce screen 2:

MiniWings launching programs only
take up about 15K of space compared
with Wings which needs over 20OK.
The program Is very useful for making
launching screens that restrict the use
of the computer for some users; to
make demonstration packages or for
people only requiring a limited choice
for (heir work.

MicroWings:

This Is one of those very simple pro-
grams that makes one wonder *why
didn't I think of that'. All it is is a three
block GS/OS system file thai produces
as window and allows one to choose
volumes and files. This great for users
with a single 3.5" disk drive, if they still
exist. See screen 3:

Conclusions :

Salvation Wings Is a very nice
program launching and disk manage-
ment system, however, for the price It
is rather expensive for what you get.
Users who like the desktop interface
will, no doubt, find this an excellent
product.

Dave Ward 4

Info

Product : Wings
Publisher : Salvation
Available from :

MGA SofiCat

41 Cinque Port Street

Rye

East Sussex TN31 7AD

0797-226601
Price: £79.95 WYSIWYP

Value : 4

Performance : 44m*m

Documentation : i * * i

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J Order library disks from Ihc PO Box in Liverpool.
Disks cost £4.00 each lnc VAT and P&P. Ten disks cost
£30.00 and the full twenty disks will cost £65.00. *

Apple2000

Who famed
Roger Wagner?

The Watson Report examines the
legend that became Roger Wagner
All in glorious HyperStudioColour

I believe that Dave Ward was initially
the person responsible for the 'hap-
pening' on Saturday. 27 April, inter
national telephone calls, much whis-
pering, hurried arrangements, and a
lot of co-operation finally led to a band
of Apple users descending on
Bfdmuthln's offices in Pinner.

Roger Wagner, publisher of
HyperStudio for the Apple Ilgs. was
holidaying in England. He would need
his 'fix' of talking to other Apple
enthusiasts. "Consider it done."
said Dave, Apple20QU reviewer of
HyperStudio and Secretary of
Midapple (the Independent Apple
Users' Group in the West Mid-
lands).

Dave made a swift "phone call to
Ewen Wannop. Chairman of Ap-
ple2000 (Britain's only nationai
Apple Computer Users" Group to
cater for all Apple Users).

"I'll fix it." said Ewen.

Steve Morrisby. proprietor of
Bidmulhln Technologies (one of
the few dealers in this country to
cater for the Apple II community)
said "Sure, come on down."

We did.

Dave and I started out at the
crack of dawn (well almost). I met
my milkman for the first time in
many years.

Dave had some business to attend to
in Chiswick at eight. That duly com-
pleted we landed in Bidmuthin's car
park at nine.

Over the years we had got to know
the foiks at BIdmuthin very well but
only by telephone. Today was to be a
chance to put some faces to names.
Huw was there to greet us. Mark was
busy at a Mac LC putting the lit
option card through its paces. Steve
was bustling around making sure that
everything was going to work to sched
ule.

"There's coffee on "perC and there's

soft drinks, beer and wine In the fridge.
Help yourself*. We sampled the coffee
and all was good with the world.

Roger was due at ten. He had In-
sisted on coming by public transport.
Where was he? It was ten thirty. Steve
went to find him. He did - somewhere
near Pinner staUon. It was not difficult
to spot a travelling Apple man. [Clue -
large black carry bag]

30 r

Familiar faces began to appear. There
was Ewen, Elizabeth, Irene and Dave
from the Applc2000 committee and so
many others that if I try to name them
all I shall fail and doubtless offend.

We met FrankThorley from Midapple
who was 'weekending' in the area. I
met Jim Parkes. an Apple buff who I
have known for years 'telephonicaliy
but untii this day had never met

People circulated and exchanged
news and views of the Apple commu-
nity. It was just like a garden party. We
all had one thing in common. Conver
sations flowed, hew friendships were
made and telephone numbers written

Apple2000

on scraps of paper.

But what was Roger up to ?

He was having problems setting up
the equipment. The Apple Ilgs he was
using would not recognise the hardcard
(oops. PC term. I mean internal hard
disk drivel that he had brought with
him.

Now. can you imagine a roomful of
largely Apple Ilgs users gathered to
gether most of whom 'know' what Is the
problem.

"Have you set the Control Panel?"
"What about the SCSI id numbers?"
"Do you have SCSI DMA incompat
ibility?"
"Does anyone have a terminator?"

... and so on it went.

Eventually Roger gave up and the
ensuing demonstration relied on load-
ing from a 3.5" drive.

Roger introduced himself although
by then it was hardly necessary.

He embarked on the history of
how he got into computers. His
delivery was reminiscent of the
presentation that Steve Wozniak
fWoz, designer with Steve Jobs ct
al of the Apple computer) made to
Apple Users at the AppleWoikl
exhibition in London in 1986.
Same style.

"I had left college and had my
first few dollars to spend. I had a
choice of a motorcycle, a hi-fi or
an Apple computer. I decided that
I would opt for the computer. It
had everything and I would not
have to spend any more money on
it !!!"

"I begin to write some utilities
and someone suggested I could
market them."

And so he went on...

We broke for lunch during which
time Mark had changed the Ramcard.
We were back in business.

The demonstration took on a new
look as we were shown the full potential
of HyperStudio GS.

To end the day wc were given a
personal view of the famous Koger
Wagner tie and Ewen presented him
with one of the equally famous Ap-
ple2000 eyebashing ties ..

Our thanks to Roger (an old friend by
now), to Dave Ward for making the
event possible, to Ewen for organising
it and to Steve. Huw and Mark for the

hospitality. t

June 1991

fcf* SoftCat Corner fcr 1

THE LAST ONE?

I hope you, like myself, enjoyed the Apple 2000 1980/90
Souvenir Edition? One th ing that struck mc as odd was the
inclusion of the full-page ad for "The Last One", (an Applesoft
Basic program generator), on page 25. Anyway: we're
pleased it was included, as it gives us some free advertising!
You see, MGA SoftCat are the sole worldwide publisher of
The Last One. which is still available in DOS 3.3 Applesoft,
or CIVMMBasic versions, cither at £49.95'. So Lf you want
to write a program, but rid yourself of most of the tedium of
the actual coding, have a look at the ad. and give TTX) a
whirl.

Hand-Scanners ReVisited

Since my last mention of Quickie & InWords, the following
price changes have come Into effect Quickie £229.00*.
Quickie Bundle £249.00*. Quickie Update£99.95. InWords
£1 29.00'. However; if you buy InWords at the same time as
any Quickie package. InWords will cost just £100.00*.

Many people have suggested that a hand scanner with a
scan window of just 4.5" isn't much good, as the type of
graphics they want to scan are quite often much bigger than
tills. Good point, but dciinitely not an Insurmountable
problem. The solution is very simple ■ reduce the original to
a size that the scanner will handle. The best way to do this
is to get your local printer to photo-reduce the pic required,
and he will probably charge between £5- 1 5 per item de-
pending on volume. I would only suggest doing this if Its a
pic you'll use a lot, such as companytogo etc. Personally. I
have had great success Just using our office photocopier. I
did a sailing regatta poster the other day, and the graphic
used came from a graphic artist's clip art book, and was A4.
A fast 0.5 copy produced a small pic which my scanner
easily handled and then I expanded the 400dpl graphic
back up to A4 in my DTP system, and the results were
excellent.

Ifyou have an ImagcWriter. or access to one. you can scan
full page Images using ThunderScan" which is a scanning
device which replaces the normal ink ribbon in the printer.
- cost £219.00'.

Mousing around

Harry Markham's letter pp3 Dec'90 issue regarding mouse
prompts me to advise you on Apple UK's remarkable prices
for these little Jollies:

MouseCard // £170.64, Mouse £86.34, - crazy, right?,
especially when the price for rnouae+eard was only £155.25
when they were readily available. . . Anyway: for those of you
who do want a //e mouse, we can help, as we can get you
a USA import of the genuine Apple //e mouse (with card! for
Just£139.95*. IfyouVegota//corLaser-128. thenyoucan
use our budget C-820 mouse at just £39.95.

For anyone interested in rewriting existing applications to
make use of the mouse, we can also supply Apple's own
"Apple II DeskTop Toolkit vl.ODS for ProDOS & £4995*.
This Is a library of routines that support Mouse Text and/
or double ht-rcs for the Apple II family. The library also
manages the desktop environment, which includes pull-
down menus, windows, cursors, and event handling. The
MouseText ToolKH manual and disks manage these activities
in text mode. The Mouse Graphics Tool Kit manual and
disks provide equivalent functions in graphics mode. This
package Includes graphics primitives. Requires 128K
computer, and includes four 5.25" disks and 336 pages of
docu men tat Ion.

Additionally, we can supply a Pascal version of the
desktop toolkit at the same price.

RECORD MASTER

Record Master reviewed on pp22/23 in DecVO issue in
fact now costs Just £49.95*. Derek Blackburn. I believe, was

quite right in his appraisal of the package's performance/
price raUo. however, the important thing about MCA SollCat's
introduction of Record Master to the UK market is to provide
a useful database package which will work on a 'plain
vanilla' 48K Apple H+. Obviously. ifanyonehasa//eorGS
they should be looking to AppleWorks or DB Master to
provide theirdatabase requirements. Although AppleWorks
can be shoehorned into a ](+, the additional hardware/
software requirements will raise a hefty extras bill.

At the end of the day. Record Master is the only real option
available to the 1979 vintage |[+ user...

Interestingly. Bridget Software have recently bundled
Record Masterwith the other two'Master' programs reviewed
at an all in price of £75.00*. a saving of £39.95 on the
normal prices.

C for yourself

Ref: Brian Gooch letter pp5 Feb'91

"C" is most certainly available for the Apple II. Manx
Software Systems of New Jersey have been producing
various C's for Apple II. IBM-PC. Macintosh. Atari -ST. and
Amiga since 1985 or earlier! Current editions for Apple II
include: "Aztec C-65a DOS 3.3 Apprentice System" at
£39.95*. (see Apple 2000 review pp32-34 Apr'88); Aztec C-
65r CPrirne Dos 3.3 at £75.00*; Aztec C 65d Developer Dos
3.3 at £199.00*; Aztec C-65c Commercial ProDOS system
at £299.00*. In addition, there are IBM-PC and Macintosh
hosted cross-dcvclopmcnt systems for developing IVoDOS
or DOS 3.3 C programs on those hosts (around £750.00*).
Programs produced with Aztec C-65 ProDOS or DOS 3.3 are
easily ported to other micros, (see list above).

//c RGB vs IBM-PC RGBI/CGA

Ref: Jalan Senyum letter pp6 Feb'91

The PeaCock RGB device mentioned Is available in the UK
from MGA SoftCat at £87.40. However, the suggestion that
Apple //s can use IBM-IK? type CGA monitors is mislead
lag. Indeed: the Philips CM-8833 can be run from the
Peacock, or other Apple 11+ or //c with suitable RGB card,
but it is not strictly speaking an IBM-PC CGA monitor. In
fact, the CM-8833 has provision for the connection of RGB
(Apple II & others). RGBI (IBM-PC CGA etc), and PAL
composite (European Apple //e direct, and others.

The only way I know of for Apple lis to use true IBM-PC
RGBI/CGA monitors isa //e with the RAMworksColorLink
Option, (additionally, all Laser- 128s have this type of
output as standard).

Smooth Talking

Ref: Jalan Senyum letter pp7 Feb'91

Smooth Talkerfor the Apple IIGS has now been repackaged
and repriced at £99.00*. This price includes six disks for
classroom use. - but there is no lower single user price. A
Macintosh version is also available at the same price, while
Amiga & IBM-PC editions cost £89.00* each.

Scanning around some more

Ref: Jalan Senyum letter pp7 Feb'91

InWords. the OCR software for the Quickie scanner costs
£129.00*. or just £100.00 if purchased at the same time as
Quickie, Quickie Combo, or Quickie Update. We will hap-
pily lend a scanner with InWords to any member who will
write a review for the magazine, (contact E Littlewoood via
the Apple 2000 P O Box, or telephone).

Accounting for personal tastes

Ref; Bob Wileman letter pp7 Feb'91

Theie are three personal finance packages readily avail-
able at this time for the Apple //:Urodcrbund's£49.95* "On
Balance". MECA's £129.95* "Andrew Tobias: Managing
your money", and the third major league player still on the
field Is "Quicken' by Intuit at £49.95*. (maybe Bob would
like to do a review?).

Yours with good cheer ... Jon Gurr
(Apple II Product Manager, MGA SoftCat)

June 1991

Apple2000

Applesoft Program
Documenter

Peter Davis reviews Bob Merril's
excellent Shareware program

BoT) Merril's Applesoft Program

Documenter

Having run this program a message
comes up on the screen which seems
to say it all (see Figure 1).

Have you ever written a BASIC pro-
gram, and then come back to It a few
months later, wondered whether you
wrote II. speculated at the meaning of
all the variables, failed to recall the lull
purpose of some subroutine, spent
time searching the literature for the
function of some weird POKE ? Well
help could be at hand.

Adequately documenting Basic pro-
grams is a problem. There are several
opinions about how this Is best done.

If you conscientiously use REM
statements at the top of program list-
ings todeflne the meaning ofvariables,
and annotate each subroutine, well
that's fine. Unfortunately with larger
programs the price to be paid Is slow
operation. Some people get round this
by using a compacting uUlily like
Beagle's D.CODE which permits you
to have two versions of the program,
the longone which explains everything,
and a compressed version which op-
erates at reasonable speed, but Is
unreadable.

I some times find that a large number
of REM's sprinkled through a program
seem to impair its readability. Obvi-
ously you can document your program
using a Word Processor. This Is where

ADOC gives you a flying start by auto-
matically giving you an XREF of vari-
ables, subroutines. CALLS. PEEKS.
and POKER, all of which can be easily
annotated with the small text editor,
which asks you to provide a brief
explanation for each item.

Essentially ADOC analyses a Basic
program on disk. The results of your
commentary are saved to disk, or may
be printed on your printer. For con-
venience In annotation the program
contains adictlonary of 58 documented
CALL. PEEK, and POKE locations.
If your program line Is :

*10 PEEK (49040)"
The automatic comment Is:

"SBF90 - DATELO - PioDOS Date
- high byte"

Sometimes the annotation is ex-
pressed in terms of the Hex location or
alternatively in terms of the Monitor
subroutine.

ADOC has been designed to work on
any Apple, from the original II to the
Ilgs. If you want to document a DOS
3.3 file, then use a utility program
such as Copy II Plus to transfer the
BASIC program from DOS 3.3 to Pro-
DOS. ADOC requires ProDOS 8 and
BASIC.SYSTEM.

About the program in use

There are AWP instructions, plus a
suite of programs all which fit easily on
one side of a 5.25" disk.

Figure 1

APPIZSOFT PROGRAM DOCUMENTER 1.9.1

Robert M. Merrill

YOUR. PRCG's cross-reference and documentation file has
been saved to disk. The YOUR. PROG. D file is for
reuse with this documentation program at any time,
YOUR. PROG. T is an ASCII text file, ready for your word
processor.

Put output to printer ? (Y/N)

32/^ ££

Apple2000

ADOC is a SYS file (actually BIN at
$2000) which is Initiated by a Basic
STARTUP program required to punch
in the dale and the selected printer
codes (BIN) for supported printers;
EPSON. GEMINI. PANASONIC. APPLE
DMP/IMACEWKJTER. PKOWKITCK/
C-1TOH/NEC8023A, OKIDATA, IDS
480. (ADOC does not run properly
without this initiation.) STAKrup-begs
for bucks" and comes with options for
creation CUSTOM printer codes,
printing documents and return to
Basic.

There are 3 addiUonal Basic pro-
grams on disk, each with companion
ADOC type .D and .T files. These files
(PRINTER. TEST. VARREADER) are
intriguing in their own right; they give
you t he chance io see examples of how
one might document Applesoft pro-
grams. VARREADER is really a
separate application, which can be
CHAlNed onto almost any Basic pro
grain to display the values ofvariables
to your screen or printer.

There is option for 40 or 80 column
screen, you are offered a Prefix or Slot
and Drive to lookat. You are presented
with a list of files for you to select.
Having typed in the name, there is
some disk activity and line numbers
flash by. As the program loadsyou see
at the bottom ol the screen;

Working on line Ho 12130
Total Blocks 37 to 50

The program must be used on a disk
that has extra storage space equal to
about two to three times the size of
your program. If your program occu-
pies, say, 20 blocks on the disk, you
must be sure there are at least 40 free
blocks on the same disk - they will be
needed to save the TXT and $F1 files
associated with your program*s docu-
mentation.

After entering descriptions, you may
save the entire list for future reference
by ADOC as a (type $F1 file). You may
also save the list as a standard text
(T?m file that Includes Ihe program
name and date when the file was cre-
ated. Or if you want a hard copy,
ADOC will print out the list.

Figure 2 shows how the document
appears.

If you subsequently change a vari-
able in a program that has already
been documented, the change Is flagged
by a message:

A$ Nuirber of occurrences
No longer used, rmy be erased
(purged) with 0A-E

Good Points

Printout appears with large, bold for
comments, small faint for line num-
bers. Probably rather easier to read
than this text.

The Text editor has a good Help
Screen. It is needed because some of
its features are non-intuitive.

June 1991

^-D - Go to beginning of line.
A -C - Copy preceding lxno.
*-D - Delete character under

cursor.
"-E - Eras© (purge) displayed

item.
A -I - Toggle in3ert/replace mode.
rt -L - Case toggle.
A -N - Go to end of line.
*-P - Print all data on printer.
A ~0 ~ Quit the program.
A -R - Rewrite (restore) the line.
~-S - Save the data to disk.
A -Y - Truncate from cursor to

end.
RETURN - Accept the line as

shown.
ESCAPE - Go back to first item.
I£FT-RIGHX ARRCWS - Move cursor
tJP-DCWN ARROWS - Move to next

item.
"-UP-DCWN ARROWS - Move by 10

items .
A - Either CTRL or OPEN APPI£

Key.
"-J - Same as RETURN.
A -K - Go back one item.
~— CTRL key (hold with key

shown) .

I have tried ADOC on some very
large programs, where all sorts of
things normally start to go wrong. It
has no difficulty in handling programs
of this kind.

Niggling Points

The program is solid to the extent
that 1 have not been able to crash 11 or
to lose data, but there have been
occasions (never reproducible so far)
when I have wondered about what was
going on.

When you write a line and you decide
to use one of O-A commands the line of
text is always lost, ie OAR fails.

Although ampersand commands are
identified, added Basic commands arc
not.

CALL 4 • 4096 is truncated to "CALL
4". CALL K is documented as "CALL to
a variable", which is not overly helpful.

It is a problem to hit the end. the last
PEEK. Nothing crashes but it takes a
few tries to avoid getting sent hack to
the start point. Nothing so simple as
OA-9.

It would have been nice to have had
some greater attention paid to ldenufi
cation of arrays.

I would have preferred it if ADOC
exited to BASIC.SYSTEM rather than
the norma] ProDOS Quit call. How-
ever that ieaturc can be arrived at by
using a Launcher.

VAR.READER

VAR.READER is a modified version
of the program gleaned from the pages
of Tom Weishaar's A2 Central publi-
cation. (OPEN- APPLE Jun 86 voi2pp
35 381 There arc two methods by
which it may be used;

1 . At any point within your operating
program enter a STOP or stop with

Figure 2

> VARIABIE <
& (Arrqpersand Call)

Example of how an ampersand vector is noted

2: 170, 200

A$ String variables include the *$* notation
11: 1010, 1020, 2000(2} , 2010, 2080, 2100, 3010(4)

A( Arrays are shown with the open (left) parenthesis
5: 1000, 2150(2), 2160(2)

A3 All legal Applesoft variables are located
2: 120(2)

AMOUNT ( Variable names are included in their entirety
1: 2150

AW You may add any comments you like about the variables .
2: 2020, 2150

D Var D should - 20000
3: 2, 10, 19

Bl% Integer variables have the *%' sign as shown
4: 190, 1700, 2500, 5000

CUBE( Defined Function

This is how defined functions are noted
2: 50, 190

> SUBROUTINE <

CALL -868 CTBEOL - Clear text line cursor to right
2: 2000, 2010

CALL -958 CLREOP - Clear text cursor to bottom
3: 10, 2110(2)

CALL -1205 Non-standard entry points are not documented
1: 150

CAIL -3288 House clean stack for GOTO from ONERR
1: 90

CALL to a variable.

The particular variable has been previously displayed
1: 150

CALL 39057 Undocumented calls require your own explanation
2: 30, 510

CALL 62450 5F3F2 - BKCND - Clear hires screen to black
1: 160

GOSUB 20 Use GOSUB items to describe the SUB which is referenced
1; 130

> PEEK OR POKE <

PEEK/POKE 32 Lett edge of text window (0-39/79)
1: 20

PEEK/POKE 3$ CH - Horizontal cursor position (0-39/79)
2: 10, 20

PEEK/POKE 216 EKRFLG - POKE with to turn off ONERR
1: 90

PEEK/POKE 218 ERRLIN - Line number where error occurred
1: 90

PEEK/POKE 219 ERRLIN - Line number where error occurred
1: 90

PEEK/POKE 1403 S57B - Horizontal cursor position (80 col)
1: 20

PEEK/POKE to a variable. Var u - 20000
1: 10

PEEK/POKE 49152 SCO0O - Read keyboard
1: 40

PEEK/POKE 49168 SC010 - Clear keyboard strobe
2: 40, 2000

June 1991

aCTRLC from the keyboard, Then
type In: CHAIN /ADOC/

VAR READER

2. Ifyou have used me ProDOS 'STORE'
command during your program,
then you may RESTORE your
variables from ihe keyboard wilh
RESTORE /PATHNAME/, then
type in: CHAIN /ADOC/

Apple2000

VAR. READER

In either case the output maybe put
to SLOT for the Screen or SLOT 1 for
your Printer. As he says the bells and
whistles are provided by Bob Merril.

Typical output from this feature Is
seen In Figure 3.

Continued at foot of next page:

^33

HyperStudio

J We had not intended this issue to be
entirely given over to Roger Wagner,
though tt may seem so in places! You
will have read William Watson*s excel
Ien t report on the "Roger Wagner' day
and the editorial reference to i t as well.
On the actual day Roger donated a
total of 24 disks to the Apple2000
library containing demo versions of
HyperStudio and also a series of sam
pie HyperStacks andXcmnds. We have
compressed these disks and shrunk
them down to nineteen in all and have
created a new library category. You will
find the disks listed on Pages 28 to 29.
Many of the disks are also available
direct from Roger Wagner in the
'HyperStudio™ Demo Kit'

'these disks come in several groups.
Disks HS.01 to HS.09 are individual
stacks and demo disks, disks HS. 1 to
HS. 12 make one HyperStudio dem-
onstration set, disks HS.13 to HS.15
are supporting stacks and clip art. and
disks HS. 1 6 to HS. 1 9 arc a set of dc mo
stacks. Ifyou do not intend to purchase
all nineteen disks then consider the
grouping as you may iind you are
missing an important disk!

I have seen multi-media demos on
the Macintosh. HyperStudio is their
equal without question.

If you do not yet have your copy of
HyperStudio, contact Bidmuthin
Technologies who will be able to sup-
ply you.
Ewen Wannop «

Hypermedia Resource Guide
& HyperStudio* Demo Kit

Roger Wagner Publishing, Inc. has
put together a Hypermedia Resource
Guide with over 30 pages of useful
information for anyone interested in
hypermedia. The guide also comes with
a lO-diskset of software for investigat-
ing and demonstrating HyperStudio,
and hypermedia in general.

The' software portion Includes a
working version of HyperStudio, which
is capable of creating stacks, adding
video segments, manipulating buttons
and cards, etc. The only limitation is
that stacks cannot be saved with this
demonstration version. In addition to
the demonstration version of
HyperStudio. weVe filled the remain-
ing disks with public domain software
downloaded from such popular sources
as GENIE. CompuServe, and America
Online.

The printed materials in the
Hypermedia Resource Guide includes
names and addresses of companies
that sell digitisers, touch-screens,
laserdiscs and players - even a com-
pany that will turn a regular VCR tape
into a permanent laserdisc for under
$300!

Order Form

The Resource Guide is not a profit
Item for Roger Wagner Publishing, Inc. ,
and is made available for only 810
(add $ 1 for International shipping) to

recover the cost of the diskettes and
printed materials. The kit includes a
permission form that once returned to
Roger Wagner Publishing, lets you
make copies for others!

We believe that hypermedia will be
one of the major forces in educational
computing In the coming years, and
that the Apple IIGS is ari optimum
multimedia machine. This kit will not
only give you the tools to get the most
out of your own computers, but also
provide you with the tools to share th is
vision of computing with others.

To get your Hypermedia Resource
Guide and demonstration disks, sim-
ply complete the form below and mail
to Roger Wagner Publishing. Inc. with
a check or charge card information for
$10. You may also call in your order if
you wish (619 442-0522). Sorry, but
school purchase orders lhat are not
accompanied by payment cannot be
accepted for this non-profit item.

Name:

Title/ School:

Address:

CUy/ State /Zip:

Country:

I'm enclosing (check one):
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1050 Pioneer Way. #P
El Cajon. CA 92020
USA

Continued from previous page:

Conclusions

This is a very good and professional
product. VAR. READER Ls an excellent
extra. To someone doing serious work
or just wanting to learn a bit more
about BASIC programming I thor-
oughly recommend the package. This
is a useful tool which can save time
whether you are trying to master the
workings of code written by someone
else.just working on your own program
or you need another debugging aid.

Some features seem to be to have
been arrived at due the desire to retain
compatibility with the Apple II 11+ He
andGS.

ADOC Is valuable utility to do a Job
that is altogether too frequently left
undone or inadequately done. One or
two minor niggles do not take away its
obvious utility. This is shareware
product and at the low cost of $15.00
it is more than worth the price.
Peter Davis «

FUNCTION HX DEFINED

MOS - "MMM.7ANFFTWRRAPRMAYJUNJUIAUGSEPCCT^

X -

T - 3

Y - 91

M - 5

DA$ - *03 MAY 91"

DDS - "03"

YYS - "91"

I - 4

B $ - " QUIT DO NOTHING *

ARRAY PT$ IS DIMENSIONED (3)

PT$ (0) - * *

PT$ (1) - "EPSON"

PT$ (2) - "GEMINI 10 /PANASONIC"

PTS (3) - "APPLE DMP/IMAGEWRITER"

Figure 3

Available from:

Robert M Merril - AKA: BOB

6180 Via Heal #25

Carpinteria

California 93013 USA

Tclcphone:010/l/805/684/336fi

Apple2000

Not only but also:
The ADOC program can be found on
TABBS for downloading and will be
included in the August issue of l'S
Xtras. m

June 1991

HyperStudio™ Resource Guide

The following companies make products which are useful additions lo the HyperStudio system:
Company Product/Cost Description

Digital Vision. Inc.
270 Bridge St.
Deham, MA 02026
(617) 329-5400

Thunderware, Inc.
21 OrindaWay
Orinda. CA 94553
(415) 2546581

Vitesse, Inc.
13909AmaxRd.
Suite 2A

LaPuente. CA9L746
(818)813-1270

B.E.A. Enterprises
100 E. Sierra. Ste 3115
Fresno, CA 93710
(209) 227-1721

EdmarkCorp.
14350 NE 21st St.
P.O. Box 3903
Bellevue. WA 98009
(800) 426 0856
(800) 422-31 18 (In WA}

Pioneer Communications

3545 Long Beach Blvd.

Suite 400

Long Beach. CA 90807

(213)492-9935

AIMS Media
6901 Woodley Ave.
VanNuys. CA91406
(800) 367-2467

Optical Data Corp.
30 Technology Drive
Box 4919
Warren. NJ 07060
(800) 5242481
(201)668-0022

VideoDlscovery, Inc.
1515 Dexter Ave. N.
Suite 400
Seattle,WA98109
(206) 285-5400

ABC Interactive
distributed by Optical Data

Voyager Co.

1351 Paciilc Coast Hwy.

Santa Monica. CA 90401

(213)451-1383

Com pu t erEyes™
Video digitiscr
$249.95

ThunderScan™

Scanner
$219.95

Quickie
Hand Scanner
$299

Clip-Art

"Things You See Everyday'
"Life Sciences - Vol.l"
"Graphic Images. Vol. 1"
$39-$59

TouchWlndow™

$250

Laserdisc player
Models 2200. 4200. 8000.
$895, $1095. $2285

Laserdisc titles

Digitise Images from your video camera. VCR.
or laserdisc player.

Digitise images using an ImageWriler printer as
a scanner. Good for digitising printed images
like photographs, maps. etc.

Great for scanning clip-art. photos from
books, etc. Similar to ThunderScan, but
is hand-held, rather than mounted in the
printer.

Black & White clip-art. lOOOs of Images In
each package.

Touch -sensitive monitor screen. HyperStudio
can use this as an alternative lo the mouse lor
user input. Very good for young children, or
anyone new to the computer. Even if you're
used to the mouse, the TouchWindow is a very
nice way of using HyperStudio stacks.

HyperStudio compatible laserdisc players.

lOO's oflaserdlsc educational lilies.

Laserdisc UUe»
"Windows on Earth Science"
"Windows on Physical Science"
"Windows on Life Science"
(and many others!)
"Voyager Gallery"
"Shuttle Downlink"

-BioScience I/II"

"Life Cycles"

'Cell Biology"

"DeathTrap"

"Pollination Biology"

"Encyclopedia of Landscape Plants'

"Physics of Sports"

"The 88 Vote-

Publisher of many laserdisc titles.

Publishers of many laserdisc titles.

"Regard for the Planet"
■National Gallery of Art'
"Computer Dreams,"

Interactive video disc of the 1988
Presidential campaign.

lHiblishcrs of many laserdisc titles.

June 1991

Apple2000

Hptf

ZTek Co.

P.O. Box 1055

Louisville. KY 10201-1055

(800)247-1603

Videodiscs, misc.

MECC. Elc.
2490 Lexington Ave. North
St. Paul. MN 55126
(800) 228-3504 ext 527

(800) 481-3500 cxt 527 in MN

Videodisc . misc.

Directory of many lOO's of laserdisc
and CDROM titles.

Catalog of varied products, including
laserdiscs, players, computer hardware,
printer cards, software, etc.

TheLaserBeaui
Starship Audio Industries
605 Utterback Store Rd.
Great Falls. VA 22066
(703) 430 8692

Videodlscs.mlsc.

Catalog of laserdisc titles. Mostly
popular movies, but also equipment, and
some educational titles.

Emerging Technology Consultants

P.O. Box 12444 "Vid*odUe Compendium*

St.Paul. MN55112 $15

(612) 639-3973

Directory of over 700 laserdisc titles.

Magno Sound & Video

729 7th Ave.

New York. NY 10019

(212)302-2505

Laser disc mastering

$300 for a single disk,
less $$ In qly.
Indexing extra.

Edltdrold Laser disc mastering

3000 W. Olympic Blvd.. Suite 1550

Santa Monica, CA 90404

(213)315-880

(213) 315-4881 (fax)

Hyperl^aming Network
Box 103

Blawenburg, NJ 08540
(60S) 466-3196

A2 Central
P.O.Box 11250
Overland Pa.-, KS
(913)469-6502

Teaching Technologies

P.O. Box 3808

San Luis Obispo. CA

93403

(805) 541-3100

Radio Shack Stores

"HyperLearniiig Forum'
$29/yr (4 issues)
(18 mos/6 issues offer
through 6/1/90)

"Stack Central"

$42/yr

66207(6 2-dlsk issues)

Laser disc players
Laserdisc-GS cable
$25

"Multimedia Guide"

KF Modulator

$30

#15-1273A

Stereo Mixer

$60

#32-1 lOOA

Speakers

$79.95

#40-1262

Audio Cables
$5.69

#420 2309

Phono Coupler
2 for $1.39
#2741553

This company will convert a standard
VHS video tape into a laser disc with
a very quick turn-around time.
Additional video services also available.

Tills company will convert a standard
VHS video tape into a laser disc with
a very quick turn-around time.
$200-$300 (10 days vs. 48 hrs).

Organisation promoting the uses of
hypermedia In education. Quarterly
newsletter. Free sample of newsletter
available on request.

Bi monthly 2-disk magazine-on-a-disk
Includes articles, tips, sample stacks, L
clip-art. sound effect, etc. Free sample
disk available on request

Non-profit organisation promoting interactive
video and offering a variety of hardware
items, training workshops, consulting, and
and other services.
Helpful information on interactive video.

Converts monitor video output from GS
RCA jack to signal that can be displayed
on Channel 3 or 4 of a TV

Mixes sound output from Apple I1GS with
sound from laserdisc player, lapel mike,
tape players and other sources for final
output to another tape player, the GS
cligitiser, or a PA system In a presentation.

Amplified Speakers that can be used with the
GS for presentations. AC powered, 6 watts.
(a better set is available from A2 Central, but
these may fill a need In an emergency?

Set of four 3 ft cables, colour code- May be
use to connect GS to laserdisc player, or
nearby VCR, monitor, etc. Longer cables
may be purchased for greater distances as
long as they have the same phone connectors
at each end (part » 42-2368 is 12' cable).

Simple connector to link one or more shorter
audio/video cables together.

36^

Apple2000

June 1991

Epson America
2780 Lomita Blvd.
Torrance. CA 90505
(800)922-8911

Quality Computers
15102 Charlevoix
Grosse Pointe Park. MI
(800) 443-6697
(313)331-0700

Chinook Technologies
601 Main St.. #635
Longmont, CO 80501
(303) 678-5544
(800) 999-7034

Applied Engineering
P.O. Box 5100
CaiTollton. TX 75011
(214)241-6060

ON THREE. Inc.
1802 Mitchell Rd.
Lake Stevens. WA 98258
(206) 334-8001

Crystal Image Projector

$3449

RAM upgrades

reg. $39/2 56K
$32/256K for HS users !

External Hard Disk

$669/20Mb
$82g/40Mb
$1199/80Mb

Hard disks,
memory cards

(call for prices & product list).

RAM Cards, misc.

($120 for 1Mb)

Excellent GS-compatible RCB/NTSC
video projection system. Small unit is very
portable ( 13 lbs. 16" x 4.3" x 9.61.

Supplier of GS RAM chips to upgrade 51 2K
machines, memory cards, etc.

A good supplier of external hard

disks! These prices include the Apple SCSI

card, which would otherwise run about $1 00.

Long-time supplier of Apple hardware.

RAM expansion cards, memory testing
software, misc. software, etc.

On-line sources of stacks and clip-art.

Note that access to these requires a modem, and appro-
priate communication software. The modem should be
1200. or even better 2400 baud (a 2400 baud modem
goes for about S130). Communicatlns software should
e sofimethlng well-supported like Gazelle.Point-to*Point
(Beagle Bros.. Inc.) or AppleWorks GS (Claris).

Quantum Computer Services

8619 Wcstwood Center Dr.

Vienna. VA 22182

{800) 227-6364 (USA)

America Online

On-line computer service with HyperStudio library of

stacks & clip-art. technical support, message exchange

with other HyperStudio and Apple IIGS users. Many

other topics and services are available.

$6/mo. min. $5/hr after 6pm, $10/hr before 6pm

RWP Electronic mall address: RWagnerlnc

To find the HyperStudio area:

After signing on. press Apple-K for "keyword". Enter
"aed" (for Apple Education}. 1hi3 will take you to a menu
lor the education forum area In the menu that appears,
select I'Direct Connect". Yon will see the entiles "Roger
Wagner Publishing. Inc." and "SludioWare" Choose Roger
Wagner Publishing. Inc. to read the messages among
HyperStudio users, lips on using the software, news of
contests, and technical support and update Issues.
Choose StudioWare to see the library of public domain
and shareware HyperStudio stacks and clip-art files
(95% public domain on stacks. 100% pd on clip-art).
On America Online, RWP and the StudioWare libraries
are "cross- inked" to several other forums, and the same
files can be accessed from the Graphics (keyword: "agr"),
Productivity ("apr". and Music and Sound Forums
Cams*).

Note: America Online provides their own communica-
tions software, which is included In the subscription
price, so no additional software is required

CompuServe /Forum
15/16 Lower Park Row
PO Box 676

Bristol BS99 1YN
(0272)255111

RWP Electronic mail address: 71660,50
To find the HyperStudio area:

After signing on. enter the command "Go Appfun". This
will take you to a message board of technical support
questions, and dialog between HyperStudio users.
Typing "LID 1 1" will select the HyperStudio stack and
clip-art library, and then typing BROWSE will show a
description of each file, and give yon the option of
downloading iL Typing HELP will get you more details on
how to use the library. *

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Apple2000

System 7.0

System 7.0 has been exposed
sufficiently elsewhere in the
magazine so I shall not mention it
here other than to say from what !
have seen its potential is truly
amazing.

LC //e card

Those of you who came to the
AGM or were at the Bldinuthtn
Open day recently will have seen
the sneak preview we had of the /
/e card for the Mac LC. This card is
now in stock at Bidmuthin priced
at £1 10 + VAT. With the card fitted
you can insert a 3.5 ProDOS disk
into the drive and run AppleWorks
or any other application designed
for the //e. With an Apple 5,25
drive fitted into a small expansion
socket you can use your standard
5.25 disks as well. It works
seamlessly and brings the //e to
the Mac. Mind you if they still sold
the I It in the UK you could do (lie
same thing and still be able to use
your Mac for other tilings! The flrst
thing you notice about the display
is that the Mac generates crisp
square pLxels while the //e gener-
ates fuzzy round pixels. Characters
on the Mac look chunky and jaggy
in comparison to the rounding of
the //e. Otherwise it isjust a I It
display ...

How's your power supply?

while at Bidmuthin I was im-
pressed by the array of hardware
and other items for the Apple II
range. They are the only company
wholeheartedly supporting the II
from the hardware point of view.
They arc now virtually the sole
supplier of ngs in this country. We
can only hope that Apple continue
to make them available to them.
While I was there I noticed on their
shelves heavy duty replacement
power supplies for the Ilgs and //
e. If you have been having any
power problems give Huw or Mark
a call and they will be able to sort
you out.

Hams anonymous

A question I had recently brought
up an idea. Would all those mem-
bers who are also 'Radio Hams' like
to submit their call signs and we
shall add them to ourgrowing list of
CompuServe, AppleLink and Help
line numbers in the magazine. I
know there are a number of you out
there and would like to keep in
touch. Perhaps one of you would
also like to host a 'Ham Sig7

Eat your heart out Prestcl

I bumped in to rhilip Faber the
other day. Phil is an old friend of
Applc20O0 who helped us with our
Prestel database some years back-
He is still into comms and Viewdata
in a big way. He now runs a public
access Viewdata service called
'SpeedLlnk'. SpeeclLink offers over
40 conference areas covering most
computers and topics but has an
Apple and Macintosh specific con-
ference area as well. Access to
SpeedLlnk costs £30 per year. Th is
actually works out cheaper than
Prestel. If you would like to have a
look and see what it can offer, call
- - at all speeds 2400
though 300 baud using ViewData
emulation software (Data Highway,
Antelope or Gazelle on the Apple II,
Vicom or Pretzel on the Mac). Log tn
as GUEST and enter fourteen 2*s as
shown on screen. You can ask for
an application form online if you
wish. Where you are prompted for
an 'Introduction code* enter 'Ap-
ple2000\ This will ensure you get a
special £5 discount for Apple2000
members!

Calling all programmers

Seven Hills Software arc looking
for Ilgs specific applications to
market. These can be either new or
old pieces of software, all that is
required is that the developer holds
copyright to all the material within
the package. Seven Hills currently
market SuperConvert™ ,

GraphicWriter III™, Font Factory
GS™ and Disk Access™ . These are
packages that range from a Desk
Accessory to a full blown graphic
word processor.

Contact Earl Childers. 2310 Ox-
ford Road, Tallahassee, Florida
32304. USA, or call 800-627-3836
or 904-575-0566 (Monday to Fri-
day, 9-5 EST). You may also FAX
904-575-2015. These are all of
course USA numbers. Alternatively
contact Earl through AppleLink

Apple2000

'SEVENHILLS* or through
CompuServe 72437,3165.

Laser Recharging again

I mentioned the Laser Recharge
people last time. Alan Finn of
ClockTower tells me of another
company who are not Just re-
charging but recycling as well. The
difference this time is that the
"Blueprint" cartridges are actually
remanufactured cartridges. You
first of all buy a remanufactured
cartridge from your Blueprint dealer
and then return an empty car-
tridge for reprocessing at their ex-
pense. The empty cartridge is dis-
mantled and entirely rebuilt using
environmentally friendly parts to
be offered on sale to the next cus-
tomer. Alan can supply these if you
would like to try them out. Prices
will be around £60 + VAT per car-
tridge, call Alan forthe latest details
on 081-341-9023

SoftCat GS

Jon Gurr has finally got together
his 'Update Ilgs* software and
hardware catalogue. If you are not
on Jon's mailing list, write for a
copy to MGA SoftCat, 41 Cinque
Ports Street, Rye, East Sussex,
TN31 7AD or phone 0797-226601
or Fax 0797 226721.

A cautionary tale

So your mouse is playing up. The
button docs not seem to work.
Simple, you just open it up and
take a look. Ah. The micros witch
looks as though It needs a dab of
the soldering iron to make the
contacts .secure. Unseen a tiny bit
of solder bridges a gap. Back to the
the Mac. Plug it in. Still it does not
work. Try another Mac. That one
gives no Joy either. Pause for
thought. Plug back good mouse to
second Mac. This no longer works.
Check with first Mac. It does not
work either. Longer pause for
thought. There are two Mac SIS/30
motherboards that have blown up!

Quick call to handy Level 1 Serv-
ice centre (aka Bidmuthin) to find
that replacement motherboards for
the SE/30 will cost £249 + VAT
each and full price would set you
back£950 or so. The mouse conies
in at a cool £75 + VAT. These are the
educational prices! A nice bill to
pay when a sick mouse seemed
easy to cure.

The moral. Do not mess with
mice. They can be dangerous ani-

June 1991

mals. If they go sick, consider them
terminal and don't try and do your
own privatised operation on them!

Hard Disk Blues

On the same subject of what not
to do with your computer. I have
another cautionary tale about
connecting hard drives while the
machine is switched on.

Hooking up a drive to my SCSI
daisy chain the other day I was
rewarded with a crashed cartridge
and the main drive refusing to start.
Thatnice little icon with theflashing
question mark grinning at me no
less!

The cartridge required Norton
utilities to recover what I could
from it. but the main drive at first
refused to respond. Norton cleaned
it up and mounted it. Next boot it
still refused to show itself, in the
end the handy floppy I keep with a
minimal system allowed me to
mount the drive and safely copy all
rny goodies from the system folder.
T then put the entire system into the
WasteBasket and reinstalled the
system. Finally I copied back all the
various Inits and was relieved to
see the friendly welcome sign.

Switch off before you connect or
disconnect anything seems to be
the moral here.

Blinding you with Science

I received my KrccHand 3.0 up-
grade the other day and settled
down to install it. This should be a
straightforward process using the
standard Aldus Installer.

All went well till It asked which
Postscript printer drivers I wanted.
In previous versions It gave me a
choice of LaserWriter. LaserWriter
Plus and NTX etc. Now I see at least
two LaserWriter Plus drivers and a
host of other ones to boot. Which
LaserWriter Plus driver do I use? I
have my startup page disabled so
cannot remember which version of
Postscript the printer has. I sup-
pose I shall have to turn the startup
page on and see which one it thinks
it is!

A check of the manual did not
help mc cither. I am sure they could
have included some more descrip-
tion for the less technical among
us.

The cost of the upgrade is around
£56. For that you get a complete
new mammoth boxed set of manu-
als. Well done Aldus! You got that
one right.

Disk Lore

Some time ago we published an
article describing the difference
between Double Density and High
Density 3.5 disks. The suggestion
was that you could simply drill a
hole and use a standard Double
Density in the new SuperDrives to
get 1.4 mb.

I have been getting hold of cheap
bulk disks costing around 40 pence
each. Around one in twenty of these
fail when turned into HD disks.
This is not bad when you consider
we have been getting a failure rate
greater than this with a certain
brand of disks used at normal
Double Density. This brand shall
be nameless but it does have a
certain spirituous liquor connection
to its name!

UMM
AN

Software Codes:
5.25 ,, 48K]K//e.//c, IIGS

5.25" 64K ][ + 9 jfcJfC t IIGS

5.25"64K//e, //c. IIGS

5.25" I28K//c.//c, IIGS

5.25" 128K enhanced //c,//c, IIGS

3.5" IIGS

The Halley Mission Q) £7.99

A mission to rendezvous with the famous Hallcy's

contet for astronomical observation - included

exciting mission papers with audio tape to make the

ganie more realistic.

Oil Barons Q £7.99

For budding JR bwings... Great strategy board
game which includes a real table-top board and
playing pieces as well as the computer software.
Publish-It! Font Pack 1/2 § ea -£14.95
Ten additional fonts per pact
People, Places A Things g £14.95

Exciting clip art for Publish It! or TimeOut
Paint/Graph/SupcrFonts and other double hi-res
packages.

Symbols & Slogans g] £14.95

As above.

Educatiou Graphics @ £14.95

As above.

Art Library 1/2 0) eaX4-99

Print Shop graphics - about 75 per pack - great
value.

Let's Make Combo (0 £24.99

Three disk set which will lei you print letterheads,
compliments slips, posters, signs, banners, calen-
dars, greeting cards, and T-shirts, (T-shirt printing
requires special heat-transfer ribbons from £7.95).
Price is just £29.99 for ihe program combo plus
both An Libraries as above.

1 ii.sum Pascal @ £39.95

ProD OS -based Pascal programming system from
Apple.

Hands-on Basic Programming [I] £9.95

Teach yourself to program in Applesoft Basic with
this CRT package, (Computer Based Training).

Arithmetic/Algebra [I] ea -£9.95

Educational software for e-arly learning.

Fractions/Decimals 0) ca.X9.95

More educational software for beginners.

Finale

Lets hope it is not. but apart from
Apple UK dropping support for the
Apple IT line, T hear on the grapevine
that they are running short of Ilgs
colour monitors and that they may
decide not to manufacture any
more. The reason appears to be
that they do not think it worthwhile
to make any 240 volt versions for
the European market. This seems
odd to me as most of the world uses
220-240 volts. What about them?
It appears that not enough are sold
to make it all financially sensible.
Ttiis of course must be put in the
light of the fact that you cannot
expect to sell a machine you do not
admit exists!

The Kibbler t

A touch 0l Applesoft ttastc g £4.99

Book At disk from Apple to introduce you to
programming in Basic,
Copy I! Plus v8@ £14.95

Central Point's brilliant utility & disk copy system
which copies most copy-piolcclcd .v>t"twdrc.
Require*. 64K and i:» the last version available

which will run on a |[ - or uiienhanccd //c. Oct
yours now before they're all gone. Includes 5.25"
disk only.

AppleWorks v I (Apple) g£$ £69.95

Drand-ncw, reference manual • disks, - no tutorial
manual. ADD £10 for ||* version.

AppleWorks v2 (Claris) @ £79.95

Complete new package wltli tutorial, and fully
TimeOut compatible. Includes mailmcrge.

AppleWorks v3 (Claris) @ £1 39.95

Brand-new, reference manual ♦ disks. - no tutorial
manual. Includes spcll-^hcckcr.
AppleWorks vl Reference Manual 2nd £14.95
AppleWorks vl Tutorial Manual 2nd £9.95

MacPutcr//8 £89.95*

Complete accounting system for 128K //ecGS with
twin 5.25" drives. Provides sales, purchases, and
general ledgers; cashbook; management accounts;
invoicing; cash flow; VAT returns, and backup.
(Was £229.13). Educators wishing to use this as a
tool to teach computerised accounting may pur-
chase H 50% discount.

MaePuter Pro g) £129.95*

As MacPuler // but with the addition of stock
control and invoicing irom stock. Requires a

Pascal-compatible hand disk or twin 3.5 drives,
(Was £464.13). Educator's discount 50%.

Graphics ScrapDook II: Off the wall [l] £9.95
Over 100 wacVo. zany. bonVers Images in Print
Shop format.

Sub Battle Simulator @ £7.99

Undersea warfare 1939-45, US or German subs,
two oceans, 60 missions.

Street Sports Basketball g £7.99

The Games: Winter Edition @] £7.99

The Games: Summer Edition g £7.99
Space Shuttle [D £7.99

Brilliant game with educational value based on a
shuttle mission - designed after consultation with
NASA.

MGA SoftCat

Tel: 0797-226601 [tax: 226721]

££££*& sensible
:£i=E software
SSL*** since 79

AD TWO
*** **

June 1991

Apple2000

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r signifies System 7.0 compatibility
no symbol means unknown at press time-

GRAPHICS

CLIP ART

WP APPLICATIONS

MacWiue II T (ugwolul vrt sbaiQhtfoniiard WP)
Mtcjcsofl Word 4 B (feature and function laden WP)
N<tus 20 * (hot WP *Th gnph« GfftPS nur 10 unrjaoW
latfe (new in* coy entrant to a crowded WP market)
Vantage (Mi Wurcd DA especially good at converting DO Mo)
WordPerfect 2 »' (Mac waton ot lamous PC WP)
Wrrto Ho* 2 2 7; (last sbaighttorwaid WP. i doewe to use)

WP UTILITIES iAI OS
AM Advantage * (stand atone and UA outiiner)
EndHMIttWifionr^raa'iwpariilulliiiUaiiilwiiirtOl
Ewcawiiiil 2 (aeate aaurale eooabore trom this DA)

Gfvw* ? o i hjuuMM hwaiw MAd tan mi cmcj ■> ■

Ins-de tnlormabon (brainstorming tool kwcow worm/iaeas)
Ihunrier / * lawpelert MWl»r*a cMcttr «ff wB in OuiM
WmtninOer (DA Thesaurus Iw any appticahon)

DATABASES

RM ATIOHAL

4m Dimensiori i> (WflWi ot «* databases)

Double Hdi» II T- (easier 00 fo* starler r/ograrnmen)
Ftleforc* <T (much erne* lo use and upgiadeaWe to 40)
Fo*base-Mac 2 t- (tast U8 »t*> great nerten reads dBase) -
Oralis 5 ffi (now much too art mac Mk-Mu mtertace>

FIAT

DAiaia»«i?flWIHeDAfc«oipacoHirtniertacE«3todW)
rtteM*ke/Pto®(boHWMeOBrrtf everyone needs ill
Panorama (llM hte 06. «y portrtuland wy quick)

DEDICATED
CAT 30»loltsman'Be*tOT.c*ttettac«M&«twns)
D,iwO« T.(f«juruni*MW .

QujCKDw 09 (il yuu dun 1 haw il you aunt li*>ng ■ 0A rotodei)

BUSINESS

SPREADSHEETS

MicrosoP. E«« 301 (leading sweadstwi in* leawo)
One Shot WoAsheet ft M you doni need all that power )
WingZ * (amat>ng spreadsheet includes crwtmg and tcnfM)
SPREADSHEET BASED SOLUTIONS

Pow Macros tot &m (tfiowoll Ettift macto unguge)

Business Plan icon* (E*c* tiudrwaTflawfreseasting)
Sales & Marketing TouPul (wmpret'erisirt torecasbng)

BUSINESS GRAPHS & CHARTS
Oiid Graph (o»gina) colour graphing tool tor (he Mac) .
OtJtl&iph*'(po«rMlteutik0«|)*«nfl!M0
KaaeidaGraph (righty ^W US graphing paooQe)

SIMULATORS
Extend (powerful simulator wrti mount language )
i Tfflni (piMHlul Uiaq^Hdnoid jwiuUtoi tigm SW la folk )

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE
Or** (WP OB SpieauShee* Con»rs Paint Draw Secretary)
M.ciuc4 Wwto 2 a (WP. 06. Comrm. Draw. Sprtadsheat )
Mtc'KCft 0n«<T (En*, Word, PowerPoW. Wt Bond*)
wtfosrtOmceCOROMT,(matort) ,

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KeyPtan (de«HO|i m ourtmet men no you ate in cilBcal oaBi )
MaxPiomiia'(powlulvrt^e»orilicin«rdrKlt'c»«*e] ..
MacScneoWe ? 5 (lew heai>wght project ochcduiing'

ACC0UHT1N0
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Patn (D«t rrwim arnniriB padage kx Ihe tun aoi Itkiale)

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Mae IB <X> (wterant outiinefrtexVproertaiio'' eap*Wifyj
Pwiuaiion 2 0T (rutfi end preseotalions wilti outline*)
PowerPoint T (poenrtui rtuflrw easy prewnUliom)

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SM2B 2Mb SIMM* C9S-.00

SM4MB 4Mb SIMMs C155.DO

3MPX 1Mb Mac HFX C30.OO

SM4FX 4Mb Mae IIFX C15S.OO

3MFX LuaarWrlUr II C30.00

PORT1 1Mb Portable C199.O0

P0RT2 3Mb PortabU C300.00

P0RT3 3Mb Portaibls C52S.O0

M O R Y

PAINT & DRAW
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Do* Pairt 3 45 (»wy good DA paint and draw pjcUbo)
MatOtwBT(iawiouayBpotwtulorwpKMp«j

!AKftiWii*(D«™iDirBiMaElJuiiJsil

MatCfeese ^ (super cheao 3? W colour paM tool)
Mariah CD (database tor you grapnia. searcr., keywords)
0«ii m (marrf(lou5 new H W ftfow mim« ojK *K (
Pufl Pii« Pronssoral X (32 0>i W tea c **m)
SupeiPai »l t(Oa»ic patnl and draw soBwtfe)
S*ud« 1 *• (unique artmaling paint package)
S?ud.g 8 S (tu<i leaturtd fiigri end cotour paini program)
Sato V T iVriilMvmoltneaDow SmiceMatOse)
UiuaPaniT Owwctf oaawpeinlaixJd»wprogrern) .

DARKROOM 4 RtlOUCMIHG
CotourShidio » (pcmwtul retowfttng wiBi good part* looti)
Dylal Darkroom cB (moftOChrome r*o»eitoucfting>
image Sftjd>o T- (racflocrirom? prwo reaoiriiing)

ProaSnop e {asm Hng of n UWt ibbjujmij tuxMxs)
SI wo ® ( weal special ctfttts tor CotorStudio)

CAD a M0OEILING

Ctaia CAD ?0 T (aastfttors y g porrcrtu) CAD) ~_

CwncCADOfKsxiUrUSCADpacWge)

McRcnderman (« peg reraenrig loot lor 30 images)

MinrCad (mail GAD pettoirruMu ) ...

MooW $*» (30 solKl obied modsHtia tool}

Ray Dream Oesgner (30 modelling & rendering)

Realise (new 30 sW»d oopM mnflellmg lonf)

SirataVraon 30 ® C24 M ptioto inlolH. taitoHigj

S*i«i 30 Pro * (now supports 24 bl coloor)

Super 30 «r. 2 (flexible colour 3D tool)

Virtos WaOirtfourjn (draw m 30 and r)y awougti me rnodrt)

POSTSCRIPT GRAPHICS

Freajfiand 30 a (PosiScripi minng mm im manipnatinni
ntusianr 20 a.- (power PustSuvt leal and layout aDilirv)
Streamline a (cm PoirScnpt ado tracing root)

£195 00

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0TPAPPIICATI0HS

Desigr>Srudio«l>gfi end DTP program) . £495.00

FomorAater ay(propubl«hiriBa»M0nUNKindMEXIl £75000

Mui-i Ad Crealot (speoaiiwd DIP tor laying fi« anwra) £675 00

PageMaA«40a;(c«oIlt«rwOrBmrifters) £49500

Pesunal Pios (new baby brother lor PageMaker) £195 00

Pu&ii»l!toy20a.lMacUt«USbe«DTPw.nrier) H450O

QuiftX|BW30T;iwoflieic<iner*QPnvyrirtwH »95m

QiorkXtrna)(opar)«inatatidtoXnrBsa'toatuia) - £0900

Ventura PuWisrierT(ltntil,inigratoli(>mDOSworld) £57500

OTP AIOS* FONT MANIPULATION

The Curator (coWeaAfapUys fflago/grapNo on hard ctak) CM X

DataStwew(dat3C)a«DublisWnfllool) £22500

letraStudu(f>>ae^lriearBine)tontr^^ £305.00

hePiinl®(culuuisev*atoiouiPaoor«b*ttouIpuO £36500
SuperClue 2 OrsmEor, view and paste incompatible documents) FS5 00

Typ»Sly4er® (manipulates PostScript tents) nteOD
typeAlign a (0(*w a wirjgiy line irorypeica needs ATM) £7900

FONTS

TYPEFACES (all C)

Adobe Fonts , call

ATM Pkus Par* (Adobe vmorn « rest of me Laser tonoi £ 130 00

Aoooe True Manaojer nttt owiUai DTP piogram) r^9 00

Adobe Type Sets (c^teBom of Hcedlnelonb) tiomC7900

FractiOTF^e^(aSetilarKJSanSsillor1torariyrrict»cn) £4t>uu

Ftutnt i-onts (cowection or w manpw innrs) £35 CO

FljrtiJMFfflBs (79 e«prflert retorts) E1300O

Monotype Fonts (much at mo smous libran/ a no* on the Mac) call

network Font (design your own Networks with Netlonft) £7500

WorWDassFrjrW(yrair»r>napwnMirvBi eacn£490O
ine Onrjuats*. TJic Stylish - , 11* OWft* M The Ti«tea* gicat rgfnon
Pc^r^^c^Wera,

FONT rOUHORIES I UTILITIES

AdoceljpeFieunwiiityouu^iobollc^younocdi!) . £4500
Art Irrwtar V (lum your PottScnpl art into a Poflbcnpt tontl £95 f"l

for«Slt*lW(Mlr«lBafllwJIMlMBTr^ltnr!ilwa5e1l £45000

Fonusttc Plus 2 (Uassic oil map tort foundry) E550O

fpntcflri^3«(fn«pow*r\^S^ C29500

MacKernfkwn your sets ollona) "flou

Ur«BnaprVMtsPtoa)(ain , iemTyn8i43toIruBlviff! £9500

MULTIMEDIA

HARDWARE

MoWWtofhHJBlyraledstie^BBKSiK*^ VlWftllJ

i^nmpiiiK lyes (coioiu video capture witn someFX) ^4S

HMS*i<mt*a*X&Qal*l*toto*Q ■ £299500

rlt«aBchlrisKGirtljei(iiv^^ £115000

VideoLogcDVA4000M (new muibmadU card Ssornate) 1189500

SOFTWARE

AjiirnationWc<ki(g/eilvafi»anirnaMnr>aciiay f 11500

FiimMsw (nion ma miBrimeoa ajumalioit ortdue) E696 (H I

MauuUind Di-ettcr » (key mutbmedia loot) £535 00

McdiaMak»*(cdiliIallinB3Slc^tofreewoingonlovidM> £47500

P^ediaTrac*s*(ri«rd.edH3Mr)U¥l«kv»pwo^»nf«) n/000

PUDlB»lK«wr«Tl,I(*8WMW^ £9400

neMQnm Resource 0/ (dcuwrs ul ueaulilul EPS Uaukuiuuntfsl . £75 00

MapAn£PSFa:(irc^m*csinF^33t5cripfto'mai) £9500

MapAri Paint a^ (world rro« m MacP*« tormal) £4500

PostScript Maps UK f> (ccninliM inarh \cmvs I ortdcfi bttttll 19500

PoseaipiMiiiOriiJforjeaitaliQTimsu^iiiica) £3500

Suattuoi CO Rom * (huge quantity o* good Images) £19000
WctPaini t> (beat bitmap art avatlabie - lOOOs ol -mages)

iwMdinerenisetsotinieeoisksRarTi) ■etatrfftOO

PC COMPATIBILITY

Acr*ssPCT(reaflPCriwnireoirrimi1r)ppy( £7900

DOS MuunksOD (same as above) £6003

0TjSrkeCA(DAWI*ifO«^to'c^artw.iletoPC*s«) £2900

MacLirft Plus (popular Mac/PC link wtilOOs (raostalon) nasnn

Son PC Mac its a (H086 tGA muQtion tor ug Macs) £25000

SoflF^2MmUiEGA(adJurih>SonPCabove) . £13500

lops flashcarrj (Loalfaik caid tor PCworW wilTi lopoOOS) £11000

To»D«30(«vefEionotTopilOfApp«r«^ £12500

COMMUNICATIONS

COMMS SOFTWARE

MvuPhui«30T'latclaimedwn*mp*>;wittiuxiicora) £21000
Vicom C^ir^ (tamom LW packago easy lo use yetpowertul) £14000

VicomMutot»ni(ir)igg«broeher) f?«00

Whin Krdght a.- (very ptmenbl. RedRyda uugr jjt) £99 00
COMMS HARDWARE

Ieirfr»nfaiMa]emaurjioduruduaalagteaiu(M') £19500

NetModem (shsre one modem over enti:e nctwo'ti) irom £335 00

tWSenaHtfarteeni'.OevKK on network) E25O00

ri^idge (bridge ner*ort5 IcwtraswIHrl t'365(TJ

WS3000 Modem (Old taraOul 1200 BAUD modem) £19900

WSSOjO V2i &I3 <>dtaiir*jl 2400 BAUD modem) £295.00

Cow>«r MSt 9600 baud (W modem al pood p»»ce) 4^5 00

NETWORK SOFTWARE
Cartjon Copy t win Pat* * (remote accees and file shanngj
DataOub -new pretender to lops crown Mam as 3 pack)
FrnoPe* (muriilui Ethernet t«tnu(k»|
EasyShare V> (cheap but aoptksticatod hlc sharing)
GracaLAH (lousy name, good network analysts)
liason (prim router arvi iv»twork dial in)

lo«PB»irtK«iil»loaljlknBhior»3) ..

MiciosoR M*l Server * (tlaasto powerful E-Mail)
MiciosoRMatl 10 User a (works wO above

UuiC-Mail 2 i 10 User 7 (poiwrtui n&W E-Matlj
TlnmM)40a'(renMeacteasaull»*eto'iietwwk3) .
Dabjfefsnai I tMMtotnmMhMb •odsroiJ
TOPS 3 (classic file sharing soffwwa wfthout dedkasd Mac)

. C22O00

BamflMOO
£52500
£9900

— P9600
(24500
£26500
£18600

. . £3»l»

£37500

. £8000

... £115.00

£14600

HARDWARE

£1»00

INPUT DEVICES

Floppy Dflve 900K (add-on erferrat ttoppy)

ktoppy Drive 1 «MD(ldO«ei»noinnp(iy) C ■'*■' LOO

f»ravisMuuwSiUAC«(ta5iuusal^Mseriou30arra«rsn) . £9500
Crt-nded Keyboard (IS Ijndion keys, nurwrt pad) E10600

KurbGraphcs Tablet tmmOTtin

Warr^Krar^ualaraitu^rrffiurisfinsibve) . . Uom £55000

MjiifeofWllTHci^SsctuilsouiiddiuiltMawaiiyinware) £15000

Vo«e Digit'Stf (as above without sound edit software) £9500

Voice raattgator tl (most sopnisijcaled vwa recognition ye* ) £4<ab 0D

MAC TO TAKE AWAY

Agey*aWiB4hM«»lwWno^ti&Bei . EWflO

OuTOrjand (turn ww Ptin nt If intn i pnrnnif) trrjm£149500

;-ciV- '■ '-• ■ ■>■■-:■ -- . ^rv.K U WP RMsvfl E39&00

CHIPS *n' BOARDS

SIMMs scobcoi

Accelerator Boards anJCaSwCardi call

OoccwiUp(rtueusbowdandcompre^ nv.ni

Wffe^(ffiffweb^O)lT1)rBSS^ flt'jOO

FWrtiusrVjcW (Usler Bun an FX.25»*u-0«accelefaior) £199500

EBiemet Boards (thick thin wire or twisted pa" wuorst from £29500

ACCESSORIES

OrWMe storage to* »0

AiiliGlaieScitrjO

Security Cabte System

Mac II Ssnd (vertical) .

SEflurtteafc TiU Swivel stand

Mac Carry Bag

Toolkit

. can
E2i00
(1900

£3500

Enthin
BSCOQ

£5900
£1500

jTilfMIIAMtH*

kshor envelope)

W 75
IT25
£375

£12.00

MacLine Policy

'Credit cards will not bo charged until the order is shipped
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dee ui additional postage charoes
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courier service A signature <* refjmrwd on (leirvery
•Same oay dalwaty in London irea n JWiliDte a! wtra ton
•Defective software -3 replaced immediately.
•Refunds will only be given on unopened packages that

ate itttimcd. wtihm 7 Jjys ui receipt
• Prices are correct ji tune i>t goioq lu press

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Postage added at cost

Papw Momiawt liiQiv^nqnqiallEy)
paper Mono li* M 90b (wr ><W< w«Bv»
loner Cvtridgo (laser & inkjet punters)

PRINTERS

Epson Sons) card (toe Eeeons thai donl hM a imal port)
UttWrttr (minj m« pnewjr pfotajcta stun/ •**")
|*wBtaKX10DO(ltJBi»IA<n)onopiiiitei)
GCCPlPtUoreat laser pfinteeatac-eatptm;)

GCCPlPllStfl page per rrunute vmton)

HP OKfcWritw isuperh inkjet nw Vm fta/Wtn*)
HP Pamrrvtiar (cneafjeH my to proof w atom 130 OPi)

LabcWnk* (mim thermil printer produces if icky labels)
TeWronu ColorQwcV Ibest value thofmai technology)

PRINTER SOFTWARE
Epson LQ Mac (oVfc* and torts lor serial Epson 10 printers)
Ff«dom ol it* Press (PS inkunrefei W many pnrflm)
f reeaom of the Press uom (cut down version)
T&rrpt (solrwarePoslSaipf rthhwWlei HMrSpniln)

DATA STORAGE

£1000

EGQO

£2500
£1*01

5995.00

wsoo

[99500
E3SUU

£65000
£19500
£190500

20 MO odcmal unvo (Mum «t i

42 Mb oknai dm* (Uicronel)

KOMLo'-'r, ; . it.' \.i ■,

HO MD MH1UI r» «• (Mirrnrttl

4O0MbeflaiiaJifcmi(tM»)

yXWbcwmidrrrtS'MOak)

Tape Backup 150 Mo |Q«sk)

0r^ AM HO MR (090

COROMDilvetToshirji)

45 MO Syqucst Removable Drive iMiaoitt)

■ V: ,],.-«. .,;> !:■ .•■'.' ■ ■

^jWrWnwwljrtiftrjp

yrWM9*0Mh(Pir«wi»;)

«900
F24SO0

eesco
ci is oo

£23500
£32500
E42&0TJ
ffifflOO
E1r35.CC
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0495 00

.£45000

. £45000

rason

£M0O

E235Q00

SCANNING

AQB FCOJI II 8QO&S I MSI COIOUf A4 9011101)

Uoutefc 30023 Cveaj qu*M> Ion cost cotou)

Omni Pigo <l (bcH OCfl curartly in nlaleria needs 4Mb)

OnWDratl T (a« in to above lor dot matrix OCR)

rmrbSnMl <T» (spelling rhtekw lor OmniPage)

ftioti RS322 (200 Grey Scale wim soffM-e)

Read nH$&&*9&givH*d&)

Read - B Personal (budgef OCR tor handneWs)

ScaraUan(BpDjes*eJbngti«rjriddsai"Bil

San X Pro (scam up to to 1S0O DPV2S6 greys I

&arp JX 300 (saperti qualtfy A4 colour scmw )

'^wdWd with 0«l »«Ji» m OCR r#«rts iUfl)

■JiMHiUi'Ji'.ii;

ProGraph {new pnxjrarnrning looi)

.;■' -,;-■ i.i ■■ ' ■■■ ; -:■ ■ ,\ ; >. ','■ .

bitiatSK (a liBJc BASIC tinoot from Urcrojpti)

SmallTah V (bc&4 ver»on of the defmiM OOPS lancjuaoe)

Think C 4 05 (PapaMakar was wrmsn in ims)

fntnc Pavjl J0 iX' ^irjcOaUycouWDBievflineii m ifml

ZBasic 5 (haavyvvciohl BASIC with good toolboi access)

£3895.00
C155OO0

EMM
> is 00
£7500
E895 00
E3B&00
rtwoo

CS5O0
EIKKOO
tJMOOO

faaarj)

MUSIC

Concertwart • (iroirumont maker compooer andplayoi
Cwtcdriwve i MlOt (as ibova lor MIUI)
Pracwa Musca (leaches ruruc aiory am eai training i
Suiw Studiu Sesswn 18 iwce composer oWy very oood)
MIDI Inftftaca .

CHILDRENS

Cosmic Osmo (magical interactive audiovisual adiwfure)
Ccsmk Osmo CD fas above onry Digger on me CO^
I arm (lues) (herat* a new type of muKi ajifiCuilf BatTUno).
Kjtblmt! (5 ciasii. twiimig iKogranB la fhe 3 to 7 year old) _
KKfcMaffi (takes Ws bom wunting to apotad anfhmafic)
KkJPw (wwiderful paint prog with souncn)
trvtfctarMieiliMCosnacOtsrnoc^
The Manlute CO (as rtove only more ol)
Uah Rabbit (taichea counbrg witftmebc to young ones goodl
HumtwMan (award winning antitrade tutor) .
i*jT*«rUartOnemBM A Fractions (hfflps Pk ahferUda) ... .
rVadeih^tjWirtjrUw.iiniiwwowamfc/teath.naireUiriQ) .
Tating Tmss tarufneW kw nwftekOeriandvoMW
Vmeie m Wortd h Carmen San T>egoV loeogriphy based)
Hhm m hanpr* is Carmen San Dwga? (oeography tasedi
WhonBiTlmr la CaTnieiiSj)iDitv^(l*aiury based) . - .

G450O
£19500
£59W
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il. .Mil

£13500
£»00
E125«

£4500

EflOOO
K900
£5700

£4700
YV\ II)
£5500
£3500
£3500
Will
E3500
£4500
£3900
liMW
£3500
£3900
£3500
£3500
£3500
£3500

EDUCATION

Special very low Education pucn ane available on some products ,
including Microsoft. Clails, Symantec and others to eulhoiuod
edvcatiunjl establishments with Educational Purchase Orders.
TyginQ Instructor Encore (good Immng (nam basics to touch) E2S0O
Uk Teach (specify Mac) (audio/disk training) each £55 OO

ftokessorUactra»naa^-.«y«»Utfm »»DU

rqUhlb ftff MM Ifl M.I'. (OSrJ-JH:'!^ 1 . '"!'.' i-'i'jl
Training for Word40 (Mac based aptf^ation trawung)
Baethovan 9B» Symphony CO

RafhRranwrifiianr.n

Ql(W6ift*opa«hiCD

Cooriwao'thoWotldCD
Guinness Bock ol Records CD

PlffSte.

;■ | ;■■ I '■: IOfB)

C4900

£4900
r75ft>
£7500

Q&OQ

£396.00
CI 40 00
£6500
Effi.OO
£95 CO

fr encn Spanisfi fierman

eacliCaSOO

UTILITIES & DA's

file & disk MANuaen

911 Utiutipi < (tvpn-AhVi A oru t icovcry) {9900

CO(nT»Unoe*t«slieojmrrasr«o\nii^ £3900

Can Openers (view cattlikawishoulpa/ertBpplicefton) £7500

Li,..r.-. iJ1 .. lWl t J :^. J !v.r l .:,^ ll i N .'

Disk Eipiess H -: ispeefl up. unfragnYot nam nrtvw) T.V1 00

Dtsaa^cijfWsHi«aOT»iiui»luStfrtso#.cl £49.00

Disk lop 4 s (powtrM DA !irOr> I £5900

FileKf«iof(9e«MhWW'*Wfifib*i^^ f&OO

GcJer (searrh keywords in nmmpt* nt fwa) iM 00

rsWOTiiirnrnofe*aDWiai!w 139.00

IrriPwer 2 $ (choose start* Inits) . £35.00

MulSObk -: (btst hard oMk patUrw) BO.OO

Norton Utilities (hard ask ueiis horn B» PC) thft Of)

Now UtIIBies ( 1? WDnrJetM luis & DA - 1 £0900
OnC^(l»unchapplk*otoaKJo>3jmBr^ . £3900

On Loeatw lightning bd Me location J . . £8500

Personiiity (Vims custorneonon ol the Mac uwrtK*) fffi Oil

Shonoa «. lutm UHiiiiawB m odbi Julugue l<j' i £4900

SUHIIic5sertiaiut^uwpiu3»iardagaWtstcrash«a) £8900

SECURITY

Aler Dart 2 * (screroswer wtn rnany optional £24 CO

A M E (very uptodicated Qati secuntyl £195 00

Diiktcck s (rosonaWy pneed datt t-t, MciB'ly)

r-i a":i:i- .'. :■■:<■■ .'■:, ■!- ■.

UNMISSABLE
PRICE OFFER

100Mb External

Hard Drive

Ama/.ing new low price for this high quality
Micronci lop ot ihc range drive.

ONLY £425.00

MetSeteliltileseaiity) £9500

F)leCuard(cJata encryption) n45»

hfcghonlch (hard disk secueJy) LMIl

OMrWnck (look nut prying eyeshom yum data) £3200

fWCKUP A VIRUS PRflTFCTinM

jkutnSave < (sain vmir wort al ion dfMmined Ineanubi £29 00

Backmalic s (tor those who hate backing up) £55 00

..■-:.. ■-.-■ '-..■' ['■■■.■( ■;• ■-''::■

rmtttk atfrtty taafsnd casrapad) nosno

fognsnn iw^ywirajpti nehwni tactoup) , £323 00

h^dw2O^(bea&icki0procnmonfherratktt| £5900

Retrospect s (most sophisUalcdaichwal backup) £130 00

Retre4pedRernc4e<(rHEs«iiit«nlcr nefwort tacaic) k2»UJ

SAM 20s iSymanifcs ami vm* utility) f 79 00

ViiE4 30iftieslrtiftU«te«&«aa**ii)fc(dli) £5900

PflODUCTlViri' EMHAJfCERS

CahjjialurCuolruUoi 2 (utak OAcaluWors) ES400

L4len[»Maaors(cieAf«H€ale^ £39.00

CaJertWi (briliant jtarm. icnwvRr and dory sywm) *V OT

f)^Pir>M(ry«rUtorti5kftonianyapptiratiorii £9500
DvncDw 20 S (prtortE/adchess daUCase with hlotu pontout) £89 00

Expose Pto£ (WW AjrTpuftW fCOO

Hyper DA II (read HyperCiM <■« from a OA) E« or>

Maaisiis,mp»rjAiOJma«pEi) £4300

MasleiJittjWilOrJsM'iJJo*D W90O
MedingMaWsuWilSflpTkitiaMn^^ . DtiOO

MuHiCBp 20 fmuftple copen & pastes) v» U>

fterlteys ? •; (ma-tn m*w icre saver itttty) £9900

toickDtilli^niivjiasjrjAoiUoase e«erri*( £35.00

Scieenshol (low ccisfWtosfured acrecn dumpuMily) C3SW

Slec«trig0ui2s(sole*aiet.g4cfeenevtenrte') £59.00

smart Aurms (DA rmnrvyf/niary tysanm) i 65 00
Snuit Ala no. muiti uso (r«twort diary version) horn £125 00

SmartScrap i Clipper (enhanced scrjpbock) P6S 00

stopwatch 3 (ct*nt A prOfW Uma'acDviry momloring) £» oil

siiitniiMiitt<irnniie(ilkicrnipiessM £6500

StrtaseZilrnirwalOOsOAsfit^itbl £4900

SuptuOuc H (pnrtt imtQcaj to cfesii) K9QQ

SuperSpooi (best wnageWser spcoier) £5900

<ka»rlawrSpooJ (tasa A IrnajeWtiia spoofo) . -£9500

I*n^ Moose fret t ptoducinih; enhancer) £2300

Ictoo II lire mo« pniOfU rnaoro maJeat) — __.. — £9900

Touchease(rwi*Artaf*cortaacatabaM) . TOOO

wir»WrVaim(ioMtinTiflj»otfnnd^ £7500

ENTERTAINMENT

ARCAFIF

■+BflyOf«i ion om (rmt rn w atssEsni)

Crystal Ours: ? (Briian's linutfk gariie) .
e^CryatfOMwmCiitaarEclIrN

•Colony (Icotetybaiad on ma movie" Aliens']
♦itark i^a-dw irrv ri^vjr Ma: oanw vm ontno suong)
ffaccs Com br Terns pan*)
•Hostage (anti "erronsl rescue mrsswri)
•Mission Star tight (addictive space shoot em up)
•OeTiS |DfiRiMK)KtWaWlnf«fnii4i)

^PtpeMaw (etude game Iruni 1\k& Films)

-fShutnepuCk (air taM ice hockey)
•S*, Snadow (ehoot am up kern Vm Crystal Ouefl autw ) .
•loh ic iwrd wtmmrj couu Sovnt (pma)
t^VimrsUDirtcnsJcndTws coukj omt you nesara) ,

SmULATIOflS

e>l;r\arfllfxt<iirpjewiflAn»v>canFooflrtlieairi)
e^ChuoV Yeager night Traintr (colour & different liicraft) .
•Crajy Cars (enulwig drnrtng smuitation)
•in* <y\ps tnmva rmanrryue raring sun)
♦f ligtit Simulaw flfn famous Microsoft one)
•Falcon 2 toeing A nerworkable ftght sknuWor)
•Fe-nan Grand Plot (Vie besl lofmutt one simulationl
•Kottcr lripir*(VWiwy»Cwiiejhis»niifa»«)
♦Hum FotRedOOuOadewil lie buuk seethe Wm )
•Jack Ntckteua Go" (Wghfy tiled smwliflon)
•lileandDcam(»3docla.perlc*matfi^
♦UacGoil (superh graprucs (PW A 1Mb S nnty'j)
•Uas^lCoiouiffllrjfrtyarlhOtwijilM^
•MevSkr (gef in shape toi the slopes')

."' ■' . '<>:'■' -J^<n

•CT«*Ye3g*T|i|^ltaTO(COW^
*rt« Trek (rnidlt payer nmrort space ganiei
-*P1 109 to/aivvc penoi Ooal svnUalion)
•S^n City (crcs-gn and run your own cly)
^ , :o(our(designa^runacoiOif ertyi)

e/StmCavi Ideaign and tun yw gwn iMml) ,

• <>■.]..■ ■.;.:,.-■' "!( •'■•<; >-■'

•Stratcgc Conoueet (Up ww simulation)

•The Duel lest Drive (rare ynut Perm* round Caiitorma)

ir'VnirajCofVBVSrTW .,.„...«—.,

S1KAIEGV

♦Ancient Ad ot Yrar (Son Tsu's tagh uuiray tag sin uMni)
♦AounaArtoiWaratSealseaiarirflrtrsionolabove) .
40Hinoc ot Power (um 'prwol fBtalifjytolrasipWpaaoi)
■•Balance ol Power 199U (sequel Jo the DM seller}
-•RMancstf twPtaiHt&awtreerw ..

•DajwinsDilcrnrra (based on evotuboo)

•GunsABufto<(rwyotfewrteourtfy)._ . -
♦Paflon vs Rommel (drabgy war gam?)
•iesserae (rfitoui nachtng nvndsneathB)
AJJVtN TURFS

•Arthur ( tan rased adwiuis ot WrandtaDte)

• :,■„:: ■: , I.- :.;■•:.

♦OejiVu (turd boiled privato defective adventure)
%/Ekeja Vu ll - lost in Las Vegas (tne sevjuH)
•tAanruw Hew York (eoefloni graphic adro*jir)
•Manhunto San rrancisco (the adrencUie contirwes)
♦Trust «Betr«itf(u^oaolh«ne4 bdk*)

BOARD GAIMS

•"-■:.■ -:■" ■■■■:; i. '•) ■■- i!

•Chess Champion (best Chess game)

•TioJiWmlawmdertrBnrtijveisWidUniuusgare)

t^shidgfnivdwinr^orle^ . ..

•SolitiiicCotovlv^beaui'Watapho)

•Shsngha' (Man Jonghtsh game with stufitwig caaour)

•SOatego (ward winmng classic war game)

Hf Wvtann -

♦ His AS* only •WHuS.SE.It • Ptift SF II. CX

Many games do not wc« cm ineC' FK LiasbcSJ LLano

£2700
£2900
£49.00
15400
K7£A>
£2400
£2900
£29 00
£2300
£2400
£29.00
£29.00
£74 00
£2400

£2900

£25 00
£2400
£27.00
£3900
£34.00
E35.0O
f?90O
£2400
£3200
£2400
£3500
£5600
£4200
£2703
f?50Q
£3903
£2900
£3200
IV in
£4900
£2700
£3900
13200

£3400

£2900
£2900
£34 00
f?4fO
£3200
£2900
-£27 00
H9 on
£2900

£3200

£29.00
£2400
£74 00
£3500
£3500
£2400

E290O
£2500
£2100

.£32.00
£2400
17100
£2700

3MSE30
PortjCki

CIM

Ewen Wannop shows us how easy
comms can be usin g the
CompuServe Information Manager

The humble telephone line con-
nects us to many host systems
around the world. Virtually all these
systems send us their output in the
form of scrolling text. This has the
real advantage that we can use
almost any computer and almost
any communications (comms)
package to access such host sys-
tems. All that is needed is a text
display of at least 40 characters
wide. The Macintosh is not the
ideal machine to use for such work.
1 find an Apple //e is faster and
easier to use for such basic comms
work. For those of you who already
use a modem, you will know that
calling up a Bulletin Board or host
system can be tedious, time con-
suming and Just downright frus-
trating, even when you call the
friendliest of systems. This has of-
ten put off all but the most stead-
fast users from accessing the excit-
ing world of comms.

At Apple200C we have long pro-
moted the use of comms both
through our own Bulletin Board
TABBS, and recently through the

world's largest host system
CompuServe. CompuServe has a
vast store of information and has
an especially comprehensive area
devoted to the Macintosh. However
CompuServe also sends us the yards
of scrolling text if we log in with a
standard comms package like Red
Ryder or Microphone. When you
first log in to CompuServe it will
present you with a bland menu
which really gives no clue as to the
vast and enormous fund of
knowledge and interest awaiting
your exploration. All that is changed
if you get hold of a copy of
CompuServe Information Manager
or CIM for short.

Alternative Emulations

It was not long before alterna-
tives to the basic scrolling text
screen were tried. Our very own
Prestel, which is only an imple-
mentation of the European
Viewdata display, uses a custom
screen display. But It was not until
Apple created its own private Bul-
letin Board, AppleLink, thatcustorn

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Phone :

Session Settings
User ID:
Password :

76004,3333

0272211545

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PSS Ola l plus

Baud: | 24BQ | R*trt«: | 10 [

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Phone: | 027221 1545
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Send & Receiue mi Mail

Send File

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Create Forum Message

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software utilising the full power of
the Mac was really seen.
CompuServe have taken this idea
many stages further and with CIM
have produced the easiest and most
powerful comms software 1 have
ever seen on any computer. Even a
novice can hardly fail to be excited
by comms when they use CIM!
There are none of the usual menus
filled with incomprehensible com-
mands. Everything is clear and
logical in the true Macintosh spirit.

But that is not all. CIM is prob-
ably the best value iormoney of any
comms package you can buy. At
£12.50 plus £3 for PAP it is an
absolute steal. You receive a fully
boxed. 300 page ring bound manual
for CompuServe written round CIM.
Those who access CompuServe
using other comms programs will
pay the same price for the plain
CompuServe manual alone. The
CIM software is really given away
free with the manual. There is a
catch of course, and that is that
you will And accessing CompuServe
such a joy. you will spend hours
and hours online as a result.
CompuServe will win out in the
end...

What Is CIM?

CIM is dedicated comms soft-
ware to access CompuServe. It is
not really suitable for any other
host system though you can use its
terminal mode as a dumb terminal
to access TABBS or other Bulletin
Boards. CIM is a full desktop appli-
cation which easily and quickly
navigates you around the vast
CompuServe system. It also sup-
ports the ultra fast B+ download
protocol and supports the majority

June 1991

of forums and services on
CompuServe. Those that arc not as
yet supported by CIM will display
in the scrolling text terminal win-
dow. You return automatically to
the desktop environment when you
leave any of these services.

What Will I Need?

You will need a copy of CIM. If you
already have a CompuServe ID
simply call up Coinpuserve/Forum
in Bristol and order a copy of CIM.
If you have not yet Joined
CompuServe, call up CompuServe/
Forum and tell them you are an
Apple2000 member. You will need
to give them your Apple200O
membership number and ask for
the special deal that Applc200O
has arranged with thcrn. Order a
copy of CIM at the same time as you
join.

You will also need a modem and
interface cable to your Mac. If you
do not already have these items
Apple2000 can supply you with
them. Call Irene on 051-928-4142
for further details. We would rec-
ommend a modem with at least
V22 (1200 baud) speed. V22bis
(2400 baud) is even better. 300
baud is really Just too slow for
sensible comms these days.

You will also need a telephone
line.

What Do I Do Next?

The CIM package contains the
software and the CompuServe
manual. It even includes a list of
DialPlus access telephone n 1 1 mbers
and a separate software Installation
Guide. Withyourmodem connected
you are complete and ready to go.

You can run CIM from a copy on
floppy disk or you can drag the
who]e folder over to your hard disk.
When you run CIM for the first
lime, or if you delete the file CIM
PREFS from your system folder.
you will be taken directly to the
Session Settings menu option
(Figure 1). This is a one time op-
eration and allows you to configure
CIM for the access point you will be
using and also configures with your
CompuServe ID and password. Al-
though this password is never aga in
displayed onscreen, anyone taking
a copy of the CIM PREFS file can
use your account. Be careful with
it! Once you have configured CIM
you will not need to do this again.
From now on comms could not be
easier.,.

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The initial CIM desktop is shown
in Figure 2. To get online to
CompuServe from here all you need
do is to make sure you have your
modem connected and switched
on clickonwhichcvcriicm interests
you.

Here is where CIM will show you
its real power. CIM will detect Uiat
you are not already online and will
automatically connect you by di-
alling the network and logging you
into CompuServe. Once connected
to CompuServe you will be taken
directly to the menu or other item
you have selected.

Moving around CompuServe is
now simply a matter of clicking on
the screen item or selecting from
the Favourite Places window. It is
really so simple to use that the only
clue you will have that you are
actually talking to a host system
many thousands of miles away is

the short delay while items or fo-
rums are opened.

Disconnecting from CompuServe
isjusl as easy. From anywhere you
might be on CompuServe, Just se-
lect Disconnect from the File
menu...

What I Can I Do Now I'm Online?
It is more a case of what can't you
do online. If you need to know the
weather in downtown Seattle, see
the satellite weather maps for the
Middle East, book your airline tick-
ets to Bali, chat on the CB network,
download the latest version of the
Macintosh System disks, play a
game, gamble with the stock mar-
kets, order a bargain software
package, scan the AP news wires,
send a Fax message or even Just
enter into a conference on a topic
that interests you, then
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Time online costs money and so to
limit your call charges it is easier to
prepare yourmessages offline. CIM
allows you to do this. Before you go
online prepare your messages and
place them into your Out Basket
(see Figure 3) . You can build up an
address book which allows you use
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into a message. Finally you post
the completed message into the
'Out Basket'.

When you have prepared all the
messages you want to send, you
select 'Send & Receive All Mail'
from the Mail menu and stand
back (see Figure 4). CIM will pro-
ceed to do what it has been told and
will go online, send from your 'Out
Basket' and then capture all in-
coming messages to your 'In Bas-
ket' on your disk. You then come
offline, prepare your answers, and
repeat this process. Two short ses-
sions with a minimum of time on-
line and you will have dealt quickly
and efficiently with your mail.

What Are Forums?

Although CompuServe has many
facilities and features, perhaps its
most powerful offering is its spe-
cialist forums. There are over a
thousand of these in all. Each fo-
rum conforms to a standard format
with a message section, a software
library and an online conference
area. For the Macintosh user you
probably will want to go direct to
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User Group forum. This is where
you will find all the areas of most
interest to you (see Figure 5). Do
not forget howeverthe main Macin-
tosh menu. You will get to that by
making a GO MAC call from the
Services menu. There you will find
other supporting forums of interest
to you.

Once Into a forum you will find
that the top menu bar will have
changed and now displays a new
forum menu (see Figure 6). Here
you can browse the messages or
the file libraries. All this is ex-
plained in the comprehensive CIM
manual.

The message areas will cover
many and varied topics. You can
prepare messages for these areas
offline if you wish or reply directly
to any you see while online. There
arc several ways of viewing these
messages from a simple scroll to a
full map of what is where and who
has sent them.

The conference mode is fascinat-
ing. I have taken part in confer-
ences and can only describe them
as addictive. Be careful or you will
find it costing you rather a lot in
online time!

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these topics - or experts wi Ming to share their expertise with
others on HamNet.

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downloading in the forums. In the
UK we are calling CompuServe over
a network which goes into space by
satellite to get to and from us. The
delay between sending and receiv-
ing data is considerable. With
standard protocol downloading
each Xmodem or Ymodem packet
has to be acknowledged before the
next packet is sent. This can add an
overhead of a second or more to
each packet. An Xmodem down-
load can take over twice as long as
it would toalocal system like TARBS
with such a delay between packets.

CompuServe B+- protocol sends
out two packets instead of one.
When the first has been acknowl-
edged it will send out the third
packet and so on. This has the
effect of almost continuous data
transfer with no waits between the
packets. The speed achieved by
this send ahead method has to be
seen to be believed.

CIM Support Forum

A special forum is available for
the support of the CIM program.
Here you will be able to ask the
actual programmers and support
staff for help on any matter relating

June 1991

to CIM. I was surprised at the
number of topics in the CIM SUP-
PQRTniessage area. As I had found
CIM so easy to use I could not see
how anyone could be having prob-
lems with it. But if you do have a
problem you will undoubtedly find
the answer either already there or
forthcoming within a short time.

Conclusions

This has not been so much of a
review as a list of what CompuServe
can do when you use CIM. I have
not been able to fault CIM. The
manual supplied with CIM is a
complete operating manual for
CompuServe using CIM rather than
the normal generic manual for any
comms program. In 300 pages it
comprehensively describes all the
features of CompuServe and how to
use them. It is very well laid out and
being ring bound is easy to use. At
over two inches thick the card-
board box also makes a good door
stop when you are not online!

CIM is constantly being updated.
At the time of writing I was using
version 1.03. By the time you read
this the next version 1.5 should be
available. Whatever happened to
the numbers in between is not

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clear! The changes with 1.5 are
many but will not affect the overall
look of the package.

What else can I say? If you are
going to access CompuServe then
CIM is the best value for money of
any comms program for the Mac.

U Sec you all online soon and don't
forget to send us your CompuServe
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StyleWriter

A r eview of this new printer
from Apple Computer
by Terry Cymbalist/

I needed a decent printer for my Mac Plus. I was
fed-up with my ImageWriter II. It was too noisy
and the output quality was not up to standard
either.

I had heard that Apple were to launch a new
range of printers at the MacWorld Expo at the
Birmingham NEC so that was an excellent
excuse to attend. The new range was indeed in
great visibility and I obtained a comprehensive
demonstration from the staff on the Apple
stand. It was everything that I wanted. The
output quality was amazing! And as for the
price, £295, incredible! £100 less than what I

expected.

I scoured the show looking for the best deals,
which I found on the Macpoint stand. They w^re

even giving away a copy of "Norton Utilities for printer is extremely quiet and for m'e, preferable
the Macintosh". When I told them that I had t0 a noisy tractor feed dot matrix ImageWriter
already got a copy, they offered to supply me
with a copy of u On Location", a £99 value
instead. I quickly bought a StyleWriter there

and then.

<S)Font

O Desk Accessory

use of the new scalable Truetype typeface
technology .The following day. I visited my local
dealers, Eltec Computers in Bradford, who told
me that all I needed was the latest version of the
Chooser (version 3.6) desk accessory which
they supplied to me free of charge. I copied the
Truetype INIT file from the StyleWriter disks to
my hard disk System Folder and over -wrote my
copy of Font/DA Mover with the version on the
StyleWriter disks (version Bl 4.1). Then I
restarted my Mac. installed the Truetype
typefaces using Font/DA Mover, reinstalled the
StyleWriter using the new version of Chooser
and I was away.

The StyleWriter output qualityisamazing.lt is
based on the Cannon Bubblejet BJ- 10E which
means that replacement ink cartridges are
available from the high street from such stores
as Dixon's. It weighs Just 7.5 pounds, is 12.5
inches high. 13.25 inches wide, and 5.6 inches
deep, allowing it to fit into a small space on any
desk or table, and to be easily carried around.
Indeed it takes up no more desk space than a
Mac Plus keyboard. The printer is connected to
the mains supply via a power adapter, which
means, I guess, that a battery pack ought to
become available real-soon-now. Up to 50
sheets can be loaded into the printer via a
detachable cut-sheet feeder. Front and rear
manual feeds allow for letterheads, envelopes,
transparencies and other such options. The

When I got
home with my
new printer I
discovered that I
needed System
6.0.7 and I only
had 6.0.5. Not to
despair. I copied
the supplied
S tyleWriter
Chooser
document on the
S LyleWr i ter
Installation disk
into the System
folder on my hard
disk and told my
Mac about the
new printer
using the

Chooser DA. This
got me going but I
could not make

printer. In draft mode, the printer prints at 180
dpi whilst in normal mode 360 dpi. You can also

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Apple2000

June 1991

StufeWriter

reduce the image Lo print at 80,60,40 and 20%.
Even at 20%. the text was still legible. The
printer is reasonably quick. I took live minutes
to print this two page document on my Plus.
Note that no printing occurred during the first
three quarters of a minute whilst the computer
and Mac were thinking. A faster Mac would
reduce this time. The ink on a newly printed
page dries quickly and I had no problems with
smudged ink.

As slated earlier, the printer
comes with Truetype fonts, the
new Apple/Microsoft font tech-
nology and replace-ment for
postscript fonts. These type-
faces are:

Courier — A serif non-proportional typeface.

useful when one wishes to emulate typewriter

output, also useful for program printouts.

Times — A serif proportional typeface, a

standard choice for most documents.

Helvetica — A sans-serif proportional typelace.

"Symbol — Various non- letter characters.

The printer comes with three floppies
containing the new typefaces, the installation
script and various utilities. One also gets a 115
page manual which is aimed at the absolute
beginner (one is advised not to operate the
printer in the bath!), Basic operations are
explained in incredible detail but the reasons
why one should retain the old bit-mapped
versions of the supplied typefaces and how bit-
mapped and Truetype typefaces interact with
one another and other technical details were
either ignored or glossed over. There are various
things which the StyleWriter does not do. These
include the inability to print in the background
using Multi-Finder, not being able to network
the printer (the printer only includes a serial
Interface for which the corresponding cable is
included) and not being able to print multipart
documents (ie using carbons) but I can live
without these. Also, only the Mac is supported,
ie NOT the Apple //. Come on Apple! What
about it? Perhaps here is an opportunity for for
some budding programmer? I've heard various
stories of how t he HP inkjet printers (which also
use Canon engines) give very short ink
cartridge lives. I hope that Apple have sorted
this out. Also. I've heard that the printer is only
good for 6,000 sheets of printout, This equates
to only 12 packets of A4 photocopier paper.
There was no mention of this in the Apple
documentation. The world's first disposable
printer? Come clean Apple.

In summary, I am very pleased with my
purchase. It comes with my recommendation.*

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ISHIDO

The Way of Stones

A review of Accolade's strategy game
by W. G. Littlewood

Ishido has simple rules but is a
complex strategy game. This
game, marketed through Acco-
lade, is a well-produced program
as one expects from them. The
program, on three disks, comes
along with a manual, a short story
about a stone player and a circu-
lar item for access to the program.

I know that these access items
are to try and reduce piracy but
they are also a bother to licensed
users as one has to hunt them out
before one can play the game. The
access is by matching two sym-
bols and two words on three con-
centric cards which results in a 4-
digit number appearing in a win-
dow which has to be typed in
before one can play the game.

There are two versions of Ishido
on ihedisks, one Tor monochrome
Macs and the other
for colour Macs.
This review is based
on the colour ver-
sion loaded onto an
LC though the black
and white version
was also loaded to
provide clearer il-
lustrations. There
are clear instruc-
tions on how to load
the appropriate ver-
sion. A hard disk is
required for the col-
our version plus
2Mbytes of storage.
The black and white
version requires
1Mbyte of storage
and an 800K drive.

The game of Ishido
is played on a board
that is 10 by 8
squares and is
played with 72
stones which con-

sists of two sets of 36 stones, the
two sets being identical. Each
stone has two characteristics —
for example there will be a distinct
symbol on the stone face and the
other characteristic is colour for
the colour version and a pattern-
fill for the monochrome version.
Each characteristic must have six
variants. So six symbols and six
colours/patterns give rise to Ihe
36 different stones which are then
duplicated to make up the 72.

The board has an initial set up
as shown in Fig 1. where six
stones are already on the board,
two in the centre diagonal to each
other and one in each corner.
These six stones between them
show all the values of the two
characteristics. The play is to
place stones which arc drawn

randomly from a pouch onto the
board such that they satisfy cer-
tain simple rules. The stones
must be placed next to one or
more of the stones already on the
board. There are four possibili-
ties.

Placed in contact with one stone
only the new stone must match a
value of one of the characteristics
of the old stone. Placed in contact
with two stones then the new
stone must match one character-
istic of one of the old stones and
the other characteristic of the sec-
ond old stone. Contact is along
edges not diagonally at corners. If
the stone is played to contact
three other stones then two of
these must match one character-
istic of the stone being played and
the third must match the second
characteristic. The final possibil-
ity is to be able to play a stone into
the middle of four stones already
played, a 4-way play, when two of
the stones match one characteris-
tic and the other two stones
match the second characteristic.
That is basically it. You keep play-
ing the stones one by one from the
pouch until either they run out or
you are unable to play the stone
anywhere (the computer kindly
lets you know if this is the case).

There is a help facility which will
show you the possible places

Apple2000

June 1991

where the stone can
be placed and In-
deed you can take
back the previous
stone If desired. You
may also look ahead
in the pouch. How-
ever, if any help fa-
cility is used then
you forfeit the right
to be entered onto
the high score lists.

There arc four
styles of playing
which are solitaire,
co-operative, tour-
nament and chal-
lenge. Solitaire is as
you would expect —
you play by your-
self. You can ask the
Mac to play by itself
which can be in-
structive although
it is a little fast to
absorb it all. In co-
operative play you
can have two people combining
(but this Is essentially solitaire)
but you can play with the Mac as
partner taking alternate turns for
the greater good of both (see chal-
lenge). Tournament play is where
as many players as you like can
play one after another playing
with the same pouch and with a
time constraint of from 1 to 60
minutes. Fewer than five minutes
is probably not very satisfactory
though. The tournament can
carry over sessions until you
specify a new tournament so it
could also be used to develop
skills I suppose. Finally the chal-
lenge format is where you play
against someone else or the com-
puter taking alternate turns and
scoring separately — this requires
a different strategy as you have to
restrict your opponents scoring
ability as well as enhancing your
own. Also in the challenge you
specify the amount of thinking
time allowed per move, from 1 to
60 seconds. If a participant runs
out of time they lose that go and
the stone may then be deposited
by the opponent; the Mac never
runs out of time though!

Fig 2. shows a solitaire game at
the end of play where 3 four-ways
have been scored, see scoring pad
to right. Bottom right shows the
pouch (with 5 stones left) and top
right is the next stone to be

Figure 2

played. The scoring using roman
numerals is the modern form.

There are two scoring methods
— ancient and modern. In ancient
scoring there are only two flgu res
of importance, how many 4-ways
were created and how many
stones are left In the pouch at the
end. In modern scoring you score
for the number of contact points
for each tile played except that the
outer edge squares on the board
do not score. Furthermore every
time that you get a 4-way the
scoring rate doubles. You can
then get bonuses if you have three
or less stones left in the pouch on
completion — if you empty the
pouch this can be quite signifi-
cant. A high score table Is main-
tained for both scoring systems
which you choose before you play.
A separate high score table is kept
for the current tournament (mod-
ern scoring).

The last aspect of Ishido is the
'Oracle'. This is for those who be-
lieve In 'synch roniclty' and follow
the I Ching. Before you play you
can select the Oracle option —
when the game starts the Oracle
will ask you for your question
which should not be of the sort
that requires a yes/no answer.
Then you have to create a 4-way
during play to get the Oracle's
response. The response is de-
pendent on the actual time that

the 4-way is created
(synchronicity) and the stones in-
volved. The response will suppos-
edly give you something to medi-
tate on so that you will then real-
ise the answer to your question.

The whole game is beautifully
produced with different mentors,
who guide you if you make a mis-
take, and different Victory' scenes
depending on the stones used. A
small complaint that I have is
that, in the colour version. It
seems to take quite a long time
switching, for example, to the
high-score tables from the board
and back. It seems to be building
up the material bit -by-bit for dis-
play.

Nevertheless, it is good value
and a worthwhile game for the
Mac which will provide hours of
thought and entertainment.
Highly recommended. It is avail-
able from MacLine (081-643
4626, credit cards accepted) at
£32.00(+£2.50 p/p)+VAT (total
£40.54).

May the 4-ways arrive early for
you! *

f Program
Documentation

Value

*****
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Info on System 7

Information from Apple Computer
on the capabilities of System 7.

Apple Ships System 7: New
Upgrade Offers Breakthrough

Capabilities

On May 13, 1991 Apple Computer.
Inc. announced that it has begun
shipping System 7, the much
anticipated upgrade to the
Macintoshes) computer system
software. The announcement took
place at the annualApple Worldwide
Developers Conference in San Jose
with more than 2.000 Macintosh
soil ware application and hardware
developers in attendance.

"System 7 delivers the
technologies that will define
tomorrow's computing

environment— today," said Roger
Heinen, Apple's vice president of
Macintosh Software Architecture.
"It brings breakthrough
networking, productivity, and
information-sharingcapabilitiesto
the industry's most sophisticated
platform. And it docs so seamlessly
and consistently. As such. System
7 sets new standards for software
development and further extends
Apple's technology leadership/

System 7 is the most significant
enhancement to Macintosh system
software since Its introduction in
1 984 and will provide all Macintosh
users — both existing and future
users — with even greater ease-of-
use and new, powerful capabilities.

System 7 works on all Macintosh
computers from the Macintosh
Plus. Portable and Classic to the
powerful Macintosh lilx. System 7
is compat Ible wit h most of t he more
than 4.000 Macintosh applications
currently shipping, and has
inspired more than 100 new
products that offer Macintosh users
cutting-edge technology.

System 7 Gives Users Immediate
Benefits

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System 7 will immediately offer
users new powerful capabilities and
make Macintosh even easier to -
use. Customers who upgrade to
System 7will receive theimmediale
benefits of new features such as
TrueType™ font technology. Virtual
Memory, File Sharing, System 7
Finder®, Multitasking. Balloon
Help™ and 32-Bit Addressing.
These new technologies will
immediately add value to all existing
Macintosh applications.

Great Looking Type at Any Size:
TrueType

System 7 offers all Macintosh users
h igh-qi lality text at any size on any
Macintosh screen and on the
printed pagewilh TrueType, Apple's
industry-endorsed outline font
technology. TrueType is compatible
with most existing applicali ons and
bitmap fonts and provides users
with smooth type quality on the
screen and on any output device
such as PostScript® and non-
PostScript printers, imagesetters,
and film recorders.

Easier to Use; Finder and Balloon
Help

In addition to offering Macintosh
users more powerful capabilities.
System 7 provides all users with an
even easier-to-use computing
environment. The System 7 Finder,
also known as the user's desktop,
has been refined to provide greater
simplicity and power so that
customers can quickly locate and
use their information. All aspects
oftheFinderincluding — fonts, desk
accessories, control panels and even
the System — can be opened by
simply double-clicking on them.
This provides one consistent and
intuitive double-click metaphor
across the System. In addition, the
new System 7 Finder makes system

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management and set-up easier:
files, folders, and applications can
now be added to th e Apple® Menu ;
users can have oulline views of all
files and folders; and fonts, system
extensions, and control panels, can
easily be Installed by just dragging
them to the System Folder. The
System 7 Finder offers all users
many refinements to the Macintosh
interface, reinforcing the Macintosh
reputation as the most intuitive,
easy-to-use personal computer
platform.

System 7 also provides
Macintosh users with the indi istry's
first interactive System-wide Help
system. Unlike other help systems,
Apple's Balloon Help isnon-rnodal,
allowing users to get help while
continuing to work. When
customers turn on Balloon Help
and point to any object on the
screen, a balloon appears that
describes the object they are
pointing to and how to use it.
Macintosh software application
developers are also incorporating
Balloon Help into new releases of
their programs. This feature will
enable users to learn applications
more quickly and get more value
out of their applications, by
providing an easily accessible
reference to more sophisticated,
but perhaps less used features.

Fast Access to Information:
Finder and File Sharing
System 7 offers breakthrough
technologies to allow Macintosh
users to quickly access files and to
share informationwith other users.
New capabilities have been added
to find and access files. By typing
in a word or phrase and selecting
"Find," the system searches the
hard disk and automatically brings
the file to the desktop. Find also
offers more advanced options so
users can perform more detailed
searches. For example, users can
find all Hies that they worked on
today or files that were labeled with
a specific color. The new find
capability offers users fast and easy
access to their files.

File sharing is a fundamental
extension to Macintosh that allows
any user to share designated items
(files, folders, and even whole
volumes of information) with any
otheruseroverthe network, without
a dedicated file server. File sharing
follows Apple File Protocol tAFP)
standards, which means that any

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System 7 user can share files with
any Macintosh System 6 user, and
by using third-party products with
DOS and Windows users. File
Sharing includes a complete
security model giving users the
ability to provide levels of access
and password protection.

The System 7 Finder offers users
a new capability known as aliases.
Aliases allow all Macintosh users
to organize their system the way
they prefer and puts information
just a double-click away. An alias,
usually about 2K in size, of any file,
folder, applicaUon, or even a file
server, acts as a pointer to the
original object. With aliases, users
can have access to documents,
folders, and applications from more
than one location. For example, a
user may work with a particular
word processor each day and would
like to have it on the desktop but
also organized within an
applications folder. With aliases
users can do both without taking
up additional space on the hard
disk.

System 7's new capabilities
offer Macintosh users a tightly
integrated computing platform
unequaled in the industry. Aliases
and file sharing provide users with
numerous benefits individually,
and work in combination to provide
even more capabilities. For
example, Macintosh u sers can carry
an "office on a disk" by making an
alias of their hard disk, placing it
on a floppy disk, and when the user
goes to any system on a network
(across the hall, downstairs or even
to Europe) the user has access to
the hard disk by just double-
clicking on the alias and typing in
their password.

Memory and Multitasking:
Virtual Memory and 32-Bit

Addressing

With System 7, multitasking is a
standard part of the Macintosh
system, allowing users to work on
several tasks concurrently. For
example, a user can recalculate a
spreadsheet, print a file, sort a
database, and upload a file to a
network while continuing to work
on a word processor document.
System 7's VirtualMemory expands
the Macintosh's memory through
software so that Macintosh users
can run more and larger
applications. Virtual Memory uses
the hard disk as an extension to

RAM providing users with more
memory for peak use times. In
addition, 32 -bit addressing allows
users to install and access more
than 8MB of RAM. The additional
memory users can access will
provide additional power for large
applications and tasks such as
animation, computer-aided design,
and scientific visualization.

System 7 Power is Unleashed
Through Exciting New-
Applications

In addition to the powerful new
capabilities users will see as soon
as they install System 7, a myriad
of new applications will be available
that demonstrate the depth of power
this new system software offers.
Apple has worked closely with
Macintosh developers since System
7 was announced, resulting in
breakthrough applications that are
available only on Macintosh. These
newapplicationsareexpandingthe
scope of personal computing by
standardizing on the unique new
features System 7 offers.

Publish and Subscribe

In 1984. the Apple Macintosh
introduced the concept of "copy
and paste." allowing users to share
graphics and text among different
files within different applications.
With System 7. Apple has taken the
"copy and paste" metaphor one
step further with dynamic
document links known as "publish
and subscribe." Publish and
Subscribe enables users to link
any two documents — regardless of
the applications' vendor —
guaranteeing automatic updating
of information. This unique
capability of System 7 works over a
network and will greatly enhance
the collaboration of individuals and
workgroups.

Apple Events

Apple events is the underlying
messaging language that
applications use for sophisticated
communication with other
applications. It provides the
foundation for applications to
seamlessly work together sharing
information and features on the
same machine or over a network.
Through new applications that
support Apple events users will be
able to use features of a variety of
applications while working in one
application. For example, an

accounting package can pass
inventory data to a spreadsheet,
instruct the spreadsheet to graph
the data and retrieve the graph for
display in its own report.

Data Access Manager

The Data Access Manager, which
ships as a standard component of
System 7. provides Macintosh
applications with the underlying
technology that enables data access
from remote host computers,
regardless of the host computer,
the connecting networks, or the
database software.

System 7 Offers Macintosh Users
a Smooth Upgrade Path
System 7 is unique to the personal
computing Industry in that it offers
all existing Macintosh users a
smooth upgrade path. Apple's
stringent de sign goals required that
System 7 run on all Macintosh
computers from the Macintosh
Plus. Portable and Classic to the
powerful Macintosh llfx. In
addition. Apple has developed a
suite of tools for customers that
make t he transition to Syst em 7 as
easy as possible.

Before You Install

Apple has developed a HyperCard®
stack entitled Before You Install, to
give users a better understanding
of System 7 and system
compatibility. Before You Install —
an Industry first— features two
sections of information. What'sNew
in System 7 and the Compatibility
Checker. What's New in System 7
helps customers find out more
about System 7 and explore some
of the new features before
upgrading. The Compatibility
Checker — an industry first —
provides customers with an easy-
to-use, automated tool for checking
application, desk accessory, and
control panel compatibility before
moving to System 7. The
Compatibility Checker, available in
the United States, includes
information on over 650 products.
In addition to the Before You Install
stack, Apple provides all users with
a Compatibility Guide which offers
the flexibility to use the electronic
Compatibility Checkerorlhe paper-
based guide tofindoutaboutsystem
compatibility.

Network Install

With System 7, Apple has also

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optimized the installation process
lor group work environments. As
part of the System 7 Group Upgrade
Kit. Apple also includes a network-
install version of the software. Users
will be able to upgrade systems
over a network with the Macintosh
one -button install. This process will
alleviate the network

administrator's time-consuming
task of manually upgrading many
systems.

System 7 is for Everyone

Macintosh users who upgrade will
receive the immediate advantages
of System 7's many new built-in
features. System 7 works with all
Macintosh computers including,
the Macintosh Plus, Macintosh
Portable, Macintosh Classic
through the Macintosh Ilfx, with
2MB of random access memory
(RAM) and a hard disk. System 7 is
available to users through two
versions, the System 7 Personal
Upgrade Kit and the System 7
Group Upgrade Kit. Apple will
include System 7 in the box with all
new Macintosh computers by mid-
summer in the United States.

Personal Upgrade Kit

The Personal Upgrade Kit includes
10 floppy disks containing System
7 software, the Before You Install
Stack, and HyperCard version 2.1,
In addition, the kit contains 90
days of free upgrade phone support,
new user manuals and the System
7 Compatibility Guide. The Personal
Upgrade Kit is available
Immediately in the United States at
t he manufacturer's suggested retail
price (MSRP) of $99. Availability.
pricing, upgrade kit contents and
support options outside the United
Slates will vary by country.

Group Upgrade Kit
The Group Upgrade Kit includes
everything that is in the Personal
Upgrade Kit. plus a System 7 CD-
ROM, 180 days of free upgrade,
phone support, site license and
Croup Upgrade Guide. The System
7 CD-ROM includes a System 7
configuration that can be Uistalled
from across a network, an array of
utilities, and online documentation.
The Group Upgrade Guide offers
network administrators an easy-
to-use resource for upgrading small
and large groups of users in varied
network environments. The Group
Upgrade Kit is available

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immediately in the United States
for $349 (MSRP). Availability.
pricing, upgrade kit contents, and
support options outside the United
States will vary by country.

System Software 7.0: Product
Description

As of May 13, 1991, Macintosh
users with at least 2 megabytes of
memory and a hard disk can use
System Software Version 7.0. This
software version provides increased
operating system capabilities over
those available with version 6.x.

With System 7, the following
features are available with current
Macintosh applications.

• TrueType™ outline fonts have
been introduced with System 7 to
provide sharper text in all current
applications — on screen as well as
on printed outpu t. TrueType fonts
allow users to work with multiple
sizes of precision fonts on the
screen. Both TrueType and
bitmapped fonts are supplied with
System 7. The TrueType font
feature allows installation of fonts
simply by dragging the font icons
into the System folder. As with
TrueType fonts, sounds may also
be installed by dragging the desired
sound icon into the System folder.

• The Finder™ program provides
easier, faster access to folders and
documents by enhancing the Find
command to allow for searches by
name, size, kind. date, and user-
defined label. The Find command
locatesfiles and brings them to the
desktop. The Apple menu has been
made customizable so that users
can add their own programs and
documents to the Apple menu for
one-click access. Custom icons
can be created using System 7 and
desk accessories can be opened by
double clicking those desktop icons.
An alias capability has been
incorporated into the Finder
program, allowing users to file an
application ora document in more
than one place on the hard disk.

• Multitasking allows work with
several programs simultaneously,
while the com- puler performs
olher tasks, such as printing
documents, copying or tranfer- ring
files, sorting databases, or
recalculating spreadsheets.

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• System 7*s virtual memory
capability allows users to open
more applications simultaneously
using hard disk space, eliminating
the need for additional RAM.

• Built-in Macintosh file sharing

is provided with System 7. Files
and folders can be shared with
other users on the same network
without a dedicated file server.
The file sharing capability allows
for use of the network to re- trieve
Ales from a particulardesktopwhile
working from a different loca- tion.
With System 7, files can be shared
with System 6 Macintosh
computers, as well as with third
party products. MS-DOS®, or
Windows based computers.

• Balloon Help™ allows for
interactive reference and tutorial
material to ap- appear on screens
by pointing at a particular item and
clicking. With this feature, software
developers are able to add
application specific help to their
products. Users can learn about
the application being used without
interrupting the task being
performed.

The following System 7 features
are available with new versions of
Macintosh applications:

• Publish and Subscribe is a feature
that allows users to automatically
update information by creating
links between documents— a
spreadsheet and a report. for
example— so that changes made in
one document are automatically
reflected in the other via updates
across the network.

• The improved data access
capability provides built-in access
to remote host databases and
allows users to extract data from
remote mainframes using a single
Macintosh interface.

• 32-bit QuickDraw graphics
produces screen images of true
photographic quality by enabling
color systems to display up to 16
millioncolors simultaneously. Tills
feature also allows the creation of
highly detailed renderings, simula-
tions, and animation sequences.

• Sound input now allows users to
add voice comments to voice-
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spreadsheet, presentation, and
other files.

The System 7 Upgrade Kit features
a "Before You Install" disk which
prepares users for System 7 by
introducing new features and
checking for system compatibility
obstacles. Theinstallerallowsone-
click installation of system software
for individual system installations
orformultiple system installations
across a network. Also included in
the Upgrade Kit is the Networking
Basics Tour. This tour provides
information for using the
networking feati ires of System 7.

System Software 7.0: Product
Specifications

• Built-in Fonts

Two types of fonts are suppled with
System 7: TrueType™ fonts and
bitmapped fonts. TrueType fonts
include: Times® (plain, bold, italic.
and bold italic). Helvetica® (plain
and bold). Symbol. Courier (plain
and bold). Chicago. New York.
Monaco, and Geneva.

• Print Drivers

The following print drivers are
included with System 7:
ImageWriter®. LaserWriter®.
Personal LaserWriter LS. Personal
LaserWriter SC ImageWriter LQ,
Apple StyleWriter®. AppleTalk®
ImageWriter, and AppleTalk
ImageWriter LQ.

• Networking Capabilities

With System 7, the AppleTalk
network system supports
LocalTalk®, Ethernet (EiherTalk®).
orTokenRing(TokenTalk®). Over
16 million nodes per network are
provided for with AppleTalk Phase
II networking. Using Macintosh file
sharing, up to 10 folders per
machine can be shared . each having
an unlimited number of enclosed
folders. Up to 10 guest users can
be connected to a networked hard
disk, with up to 50 guest users
identified in the Users and Groups
file. User management is built into
the software to allow entry of user
names, passwords, group
memberships, and access privileges
for opening and modifying files.

• Memory Capabilities

With 24-bit addressing, up to 8 MB

oi physical memory can be accessed
and up to 14 MB of memory can be
accessedwithvirtualmemory. With
32-bit addresing. 1 gigabyte of
physical memory is accessible and
up to 1 gigabyte of virtual memory
is accessible. (The maximum
installable memory in Macintosh
Ilfx and Ilci is 128MB.)

• Performance Characteristics

System 7 is compatible with most
Macintosh System 6 applications.
The processor is compabible with
68000. 68020. and 68030
microprocessors, 68851 Paged
Memory Management Unit (PMMU) .
and 6888 1 and 68882 floating- point
units (FPUs).

A minimum of 2 MBol RAM memory
is required to run System Software
Version 7 .0. The amount ofmemory
used by System 7 is 1 to 1 .25 MB.
depending on CPU configuration.
Approximately 2.5 to 4 MB of disk
space is consumed by System 7.
depending on configuration.

The following disk formats are
supported by System 7; 400K,
800K. 1.4 MB Macintosh disks.
720Kand 1 .44 MB read/write MS-
DOS or OS/2.

Up to 31 characters with mixed
case, spaces, and symbols are
allowed with System 7s f ile naming
conventions.

Maximum file and volume size is 4
gigabytes.

The maximum number of files per
volume is 65.536. The maximum
number of volumes open at once as
well as the maximum number of
tasks suppoiled are limited only by
the amount of available system
memory.

Sound can be played from disk and
input to disk. The maximum
number of simultaneous sound
channels is 4.

Apple, the Apple logo. Finder, and
Macintosh are registered
trademarks, and Balloon Help and
TrueType are trademarks of Apple
Computer. Inc.

HyperCard is a registered
trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
licensed to Claris Corp.

PostScript is a registered trademark
of Adobe Systems, Inc. ^

,£=22**£8SV^

ArtworkcourtesyofElectronicPeru
contact Machine (081 643 4626)

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Claris™ Update

This article is com piled from recent
press information from Claris

Claris is first with the most
applications delivering the power
of System 7; the entire family
will take advantage of new system
software- Claris Corporal ion have
become the developer with the
broadest family of software
applications for the new Macintosh
operating system from Apple
Computer. Inc.

The flagship of the Claris System
7 family is Claris Resolve, the
Macintosh spreadsheet for visible
results and the first Macintosh
application designed from the
ground up lor System 7. Claris also
introduced MacWrite Pro. the
Macintosh word processor for
creating documents with impact.
MacProJect 1 1 version 2.5 is a
System 7 revision of one of our
best-selling Claris products.

Redefining how applications
work together

With its broad and well-integrated
family of Macintosh products,
combined with the power of System
7. Claris is pioneering new ways for
applications to work together. These
new capabilities will allow
individuals and workgroups to work
together more productively than
ever before.

For instance, Claris has
developed sophisticated links
between its products that go beyond
standard Apple events. Tills means
that two different applications will
work together so seamlessly that
the usercan blend them together to
create a new 'hybrid" solution, with
features and benefits tailored to
the job at hand. For example.
MacProJect 11 v2.5 and Resolve
can blend together t o creat e a hybrid
cash-flow analysis application;
MacProJect 1 1 can request Resolve
to analyse information in a project
plan, produce a cash flow chart

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and send it back to MacProject.

"Workgroup publishing,"
enabled by System 7 Publish &
Subscribe, represents another
example of Claris System 7 products
letting people work together in new
ways. Oroups of users can now
easily share data and assemble a
mull i-authorcd document acrossa
network. Claris is delivering the
benefits of workgroup publishing
witli its first wave of System 7-
sawy products. Through dynamic
links to other documents. MacWrite
Pro serves as a document hub where
data from System 7-sawy
documents, such as charts from
Resolve, can be combined in a
compound document.

"Macintosh and powerful new
System 7 features have allowed
Claris to add dramatic new powers
to its product family, changing the
way applications work together,"
said Yogcn Dalai. Claris vice
president of research and
development. "For the user, this
means the power to blend and create
virtiiallynewproduct solutions, and
a more effective way to share work
with others. We believe the Claris
System 7 family best ill ust rates t he
continuing superiority of the
Macintosh platform in ease of use
and innovative new computing
metaphors."

Claris is especially well-
positioned to deliver innovative
solutions that take advantage of
System 7 functionality. The
company has already laid the
groundwork for users to easily apply
workgroup publishing and hybrid
solutions which will require close
cooperation between applications.
With consistent key features — such
as help, spell checking, arid colour
palette selection — across its
product line. Claris offers users a
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by any other vendor. In addition.
cross-platform links in Claris
applications will allow users to
extend workgroup publishing
beyond a network of Macintosh-
based Claris applications. By
melding Publish & Subscribe with
XTND file translation, workgroup
publishing can include work
created on non-Macintosh
platforms.

With Resolve, the company now
offers customers the broadest
family of Macintosh solutions of
any vendor. And System 7
functionality combined with Claris
innovations, make It the best
integrated family of Macintosh
solutions. With Its family of
products, Claris is aggressively
targeting virtually all Macintosh
customers, ranging from small
business and other new users, to
corporate and education sites.

The first wave of System 7-
cxploiting applications
Claris Resolve

Claris Resolve, the Macintosh
spreadsheet for visible results,
combines extensive analytic and
charting fund ionality. With System
7 Publish & Subscribe support,
users can enhance the power of
other applications by subscribing
to financial data or ch arts created
wilh Resolve. With both standard
and unique Apple events support.
orinlerappUcatlonconiniunlcalion
(IAC). users can create powerful
interactive solutions by extending
the Resolve analytic power to olher
applications, such as project
management or accounting
packages. Resolve also supports
expanded System 7 capabilities
such as Virtual Memory. Balloon
Help and TrueType.

Resolve features an Intuitive user
Interface that combines ease of use
and colourful graphics with
powerful new spreadsheet
functionality, making it the easiest
to learn spreadsheet available on
anycornputerplalform. Claris said.

With Resolve, even first-time
Macintosh users can q uickly create
financial models, analyse numerical
daia with charts and graphs, and
publish professional full-colour
reports. And Resolve offers
advanced power. Including a robust
scripting language, to enable users
of varying levels of expertise to
a u t oma 1 e repet It ive t asks or create
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With Resolve. Claris now offers
the broadest and best-integrated
family of Macintosh applications in
the industry . Resolve features tight
integration with other Claris
products, like Its familiar interface
and incorporation of common
technologies such as spell checking
and on-line context-sensitive help.
This integration provides existing
users of Claris products with a
consistent experience, enabling
them to get up to speed on Resolve
quickly.

Resolve Is the first spreadsheet
built from theground up for System
7. the powerful new Macintosh
operating system from Apple
Computer, Inc. And by exploiting
the capabilities of System 7. users
will be able to tap the power of
Resolve from other applications.

"All the pieces are now in place."
said Steve Johnson. Claris.. UK
Managing Director. "Resolve
completes the Claris family of
software that gives users powerful
features, together with the
consistency and ease to enable
users to take advantage of those
features. It's a good example of
what we call simply powerful
software."

Optimised for System 7

The flagship of the Claris System 7
family. Resolve is 100 percent
System 7 -compatible with support
for Publish & Subscribe. Apple
events. Balloon Help. TrueType and
Virtual Memory.

Support for Publish & Subscribe
enables Resolve users to "publish"
charts, graphs and data to other
documents. Userscan also enhance
Resolve worksheets by

"subscribing" to other files created
by colleagues or in other
applications, and maintain
"dynamic links" to documents in
order to receive the most up-to-
date information.

With both standard and custom
Apple events support, or
interapplication communication
(IAC). users can create powerful
interactive solutions by extending
Itesolve's analytic power to other
applications, such as project
management or accounting
packages. Forexample. MacProject
1 1 v2.5 and Resolve can blend to
create a hybrid cash -flow analysis
application; MacProject 11 can
request Resolve to analyse
Information in a project plan.

produce a cash How chart and send
it hack to MacProject.

Accessible Spreadsheet
Performance

Resolve features powerful
spreadsheet capabilities designed
to be easy to use for even novice
users.

Resolve supports a worksheet
size of more than 1 billion cells and
includes 149built-infunctionsthat
allow users to easily create financial ,
statistical and mathematical
models to match their business
needs.

Resolve also features one-step
charting; users simply choose
"Make Chart" from the menu to
create full-colour charts complete
with legends.

And Resolve is designed to
provide the optimum in product
performance with features such as
controlled selecUon (which allows
users to search worksheets for
specific cells by more than 30 cell-
range criteria) and flexible multi-
level database capabilities that
enable users to access data stored
in theirworksh eets quickly by using
built-in database functions like
-'Extract." "Find." and "Sort."

To get business users up and
running quickly. Resolve comes
with seven customisable proforma
business templates including
Income Statement, Balance Sheet,
Statement of Cash Flow, Sales
Forecast and others.

Inaddition. Resolve incorporates
familiar interface features that are
consistent throughout the Claris
family, such as on-line context-
sensitive help, multiple zoom levels,
spell checker, pop- up colour and
tool palettes, intuitive menus and
more.

Expressive Worksheets and
Reports

Resolve's comprehensive analytic
and charting capabiliUes enable
users to present their results
persuasively and colourfully with
25 chart types, including polar,
wireframe, contour, surface and
true three dimensional (3-D) charts.

With a comprehensive set of
ohjeci -oriented. MacDraw-like.
drawing tools users can quickly
and easily combine illustrations,
clip art. text, charts and numbers
on a single page for professional
full-colour reports.

Resolve also supports 32-bit

colour for importing photographic
quality images, a wide range of
colour printers for professional
quality output, and features fully
formatted text paragraphs for
editing text via style, font, size and
alignment. And with support for
sound, users can annotate their
worksheets with sound notes for
special emphasis.

Unparalleled Extendibllity

Resolve's built-in, fully-functional
scripting language empowers users
of all levels with the ability to control
all aspects of the programme.

A "learn mode" enables novice
users to create scripts without
coding and attach them to
HyperCard — like buttons for
automating common business
tasks. Advanced users can create
more sophisticated scripts that
access Pascal or C external
procedures for building powerful
customised solutions.

In addition, Resolve enables
users to import and export a wide
variety of popular file formats,
including Microsoft Excel 2.2.
Informix Wingz 1 .0 and i . 1 . Lotus
1-2-3, WKS, WK1, DIF, SYLK and
Text, making it the ideal
spreadsheet for sharing data wit h in
multi-application and multi-
platform environments.

Key Features and Benefits:
Access Advanced Spreadsheet
Power Easily

• Worksheet size supports more
than 1 billion cells.

• Build models for financial.
statisUcal and mathemaUcal results
with more than 1 45 built-in power
functions.

• Automatic minimal recalculation
speeds calculation time by
recalci ilat ing only t he cells affected
by a worksheet change.

• Multi-level database sorting
capabilities with up to 256 keys
allow users to sort with precision.

• Import and export Microsoft Excel.
Informix Wingz. Lotus 1-2-3. DIF.
SYLK and Text files for sharing
data within multi-applications
environments.

• Security passwords protect data
from unauthorised viewing or
changes.

• Ensures worksheet files with
automatic backup capability.

• Annotate worksheets with sound
notes.

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• Supports multiple international
currencies and saves currencies
with each document, maintaining
formatting consistencies.

• Controlled selection allows users
to easily search worksheets for
specific cells by more than 30 cell
ranges including data ranges, page
elements, objects by type, related
cells and cells by type.

Express Results With Persuasive
Charts and Graphs

• Comprehensive charting
capabilities allow users to choose
from 25 chart types, including polar,
wireframe, contour, surface and
true three-dimensional (3-D)
charts, for presenting data; any
aspect of a chart can be modified,
including colour. 3-D perspective,
viewing angle, titles or series
information.

• Provides a complete set of object-
oriented. MacDraw- like, drawing
tools enabling users to easily
combine illustrations, clip art. text,
charts and numbers on a single
page for professional full-colour
reports.

• Supports 32-bit colour for
importing photographic quality
images.

• Fully formatted text paragraphs
allow users to edit text via style,
font, size and alignment.

• Supports a wide range of colour
printers for professional quality
output.

Unparalleled User Programming
Features

• Use the built-in, fully functional
programming language of Claris
Resolve to automate common
business tasks or create powerful
custom applications.

• Includes structured programming
features enabling users to take
advantage of their existing
programming knowledge.

• Complete Macintosh interface
support allows users to create
complete custom solutions with
custom menus, custom dialogs,
radio buttons, pop-up menus,
check boxes and slide bars.

• Create custom buttons and attach
scripts to automate tasks.

• Scripting "learn" mode enables
users toereate sophisticated scripts
without coding.

• User defined functions provide
power and flexibility for problem
solving.

• External function support allows

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users to access other languages,
like C. for specific solutions.

Target Customers:
•Small to mid-size businesses and
first time Macintosh owners will
use Claris Resolve to create
business models, visualise
numerical data, perform
calculations, and publish reports.

• Existing Claris customers will
use Claris Resolve to enjoy unique
product family interaction with
other Claris products such as
MacProJect 11, FileMaker™ Pro.
MacWrite™ Pro and MacDraw Pro
applications.

• Sophisticated spreadsheet users
will use the power of the product's
complete programming language,
to automate tasks, create personal
solutions and take advantage of
their existing software investment.

In-Package Support Materials:

• Users Guide

• G etting Started gu ide with t u i orial

• Claris Resolve Functions and
Scripts manual

• Quick Reference Guide

• Context-sensitive, customisable
I IypcrHelp system.

• Business templates including
proforma Income Statement.
Balance Sheet. Statement of Cash
Flow and others.

System Requirements and
Compatibility:

• Macintosh Plus.Classic. SEfamily.
LC, 1 IfamilyorPortablecomputer.

• Hard disk drive.

• 1 MB RAM required (2MB

recommended).

• System 6.0.5 or higher; System
6.0.7 required for sound
capabilities; System 7 required for
Publish & Subscribe and 1AC.

• AUX 2.0 or higher

Price and Availability

Claris Resolve will ship in the UK in

late summer. 1 99 1 .

The suggested UK retail price for

Resolve is £275.

Exclusive UK distribution is

through Frontline Distribution.

Intec 1, Wade Road, Basingstoke.

Hants RG24 ON E. Tel:

0256.463344 .

For upgrade order forms and

information telephone

0800.899005 . Users in the Republic

of Ireland should phone Dublin

(01) -67.814.

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MacWrite Pro

MacWrite Pro offers sophisticated
productively tools and accessible
desktop publishing functionality for
creating documents that Include
both text and non-text information
(graphics, tables, charts, sounds
and more). It is also the first word
processor to allow users to add
modules of functionality. With
System 7 Publish & Subscribe
support. MacWrite Pro can serve as
a "hub" where information from
various applications is assembled
into one compound document.
MacWrite Fro also incorporates
expanded System 7 capabilities
such asBalloonllelpandTrueType,
and it supports Apple events.

With more than 130 new
features, MacWrite Pro boasts new
sophisticated productivity tools and
accessible desktop publishing
(DTP- functionality. It is also the
first word processor to let users
add modules of functionality to meet
their individual needs. These
features enable users to easily
create sophisticated documents
that incorporate text and non text
information (graphics, tables,
charts, sounds and more).

Claris said MacWrite Pro is
designed to be the ideal word
processor for all levels of Macintosh
users. Sporting the familiar
MacWrite interface, it is highly
accessible to new sers and offersa
power users a full-featured,
customisable solution.

"MacWrite Pro is a real
breakthrough for us." said Steve
.Johnson. Claris UK Managing
Director. "It still has the legendary
ease of use of MacWrite 11. but it
adds exactly the features people
have been asking for. like tables,
style sheets and desktop pi iblishing
functions. Together with new
generation customising features,
this is a strong family member."

System 7 Leadership
Among the first applications to
support System 7 Publish &
Subscribe. MacWrite Pro serves as
a document hub where users can
combine piecesol data from System
7-aware documents — such as
charts from the Claris spreadsheet.
Claris Resolve™ — to create a
compound document. This
functionality offers workgroups new
ways to work together, providing
them with an effective method of
assembling and updating multi-

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authored documents across a
network.

MacWrite Pro also incorporates
expanded System 7 capabilities
such asBalloonHelpandTrueType
and supports required Apple events.

Powerful Productivity Tools

MacWrite Pro brings sophisticated
functions to users through a
powerful yet accessible set of
productivity tools. Its many new
features include an intuitive Tables
function that allows users to easily
create and manipulate tables. Users
now also have the ability to create
paragraph and character style
sheets, naming and saving
combinations of stylistic elements
(like font and colour) for future use.
Detailed document statistics and
auto-save and back-up capabilities
have also been added.

Improveii lents made to optimise
productivity include advanced
formatting capabilities. Users now
have the option to create multiple
headers and footers and change
page guides directly on the screen.
And international spell-checking
has been streamlined. Users can
now spell-check a multilingual
document without swapping
dictionaries. Users will also be able
to selec t from an expanded range of
81 colours on a pop-up palette.

Requiring one megabyte of
memory (2. 5megabytesforSystem
7users).MacWritePro Is accessible
to virtually all Macintosh users. It
will work with low- to high-end
Macintosh computers, from the
Macintosh Plus on up to the
Macintosh Ilix.

Access to Desktop Publishing
Functions

with easy access to DTP functions,
MacWrite Pro offers users an
affordable alternative to expensive
layout packages for creating
professional-looking documents.

Through frames that can hold
text, graphics, charts and more.
DTP functions are made available
to any MacWrite Pro user, even
those with no DTP experience. These
frames can be created and fully
controlled through simple menu
commands. Users can easily crop
and scale a frame and place it
anywhere on a page. They can also
add borders, colour fill-ins and
patterns. Text can be wrapped
around all types of frames and
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frame can be fixed to a specific
location on a page or float with text.

MacWrite Pro also features
expanded graphics handling
capabilities, such as the ability to
"fit picture to frame" or "fit frame t o
picture." These capabilities are
available under the Picture menu
which appears on the menu bar
whenever a graphics frame is
created. And MacWrite Pro supports
the most popular graphic file
formats including MacPaint, PICT.
ColourPICTC.TIFF, and EPSF files.

Additional layout capabilities
include a new column icon that
enables users to create co lumns by
simply clicking a button on the
ruler, and thcabilitytocasilyadjust
column widths with the mouse and
option key.

Users can also now change the
spacing between characters with a
new character tracking capability.

Claris ADDits. A Modular Way to
Add Functionality

MacWrite Pro provides users with a
virtually effortless way tocustomise
their word processor. Rather than
burdening the programme with
rarely used features. MacWrite Pro
provides users with the ability to
add modules of functionality as
they need them. Called Claris
ADDits™ . these modules are mini-
applications that allow users to
accomplish a variety of tasks within
the constraints of a frame. This
means that users requiring specific
functionality such as tables or
maths equation editors, for
exan lple. or those whose needs will
grow in the future, have a complete
expandable solution with MacWrite
Pro.

To install an ADDit. a user simply
drags it into the Claris folder in the
System folder. The ADDit then
appears as an icon on the Tools
palette. A Notes ADDit. that allows
users to paste text and/or sound
notes on a document, and a Tables
ADDit will be bundled with
MacWrite Pro. More ADDits are
being developed by Claris and third
party developers.

MacWrite Pro also expands user
access to documents created with
other applications on Macintosh,
IBM-PC or mainframe systems.
Incorporating Claris XTND
technology, MacWrite Pro allows
users to easily import and export
documents in more than 50 file
formats.

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Key Enhancements:

New and Enhanced Productivity

Tools

• Create and manipulate tables
easily. MacWrite Pro automatically
recognises the number of columns
and rows needed for a selected
section of a document and creates
the appropriate table. Users also
have the option to perform a
number of different commands on
the selected tables such as adding
or deleting rows and columns,
showing or hiding cell guides, etc.

• Create style sheets for paragraphs
as well as characters by saving
selected stylistic elements and ruler
information for repeated use.

• Improved formatting capabilities
such as the ability to create multiple
headers and looters, and change
page gu ides directly on the screen.

• New international spelling
capabilities that allow users to spell-
check a multilingual document
without swapping dictionaries.
English. British English, French,
German, Italian and Spanish
dictionaries are available. New
international thesauruses share the
same functionality and are also
available in several languages.

• Detailed document statistics
provide the number of characters,
words, lines and paragraphs in a
selection of text, or an entire
document.

• Support for 81 colours enhances
reports and conveys important
information.

• Auto-save and back-up
capabilities protect valuable data.

Access to Desktop Publishing
Functions

• Create and crop, scale and place
text and non- text frames, including
tables, graphics. Quick Notes and
charts. Graphic file formats
supported include MacPaint-.
PICT, Colour PICT2, TIFF, and
EPSF.

• Option to wrap or not wrap text
around all types of frames. Text
can also be wrapped around noii-
rectangular objects.

• Full- featured frame control
includes the ability to select fixed
or floating frames and make them
transparent oropaque.This applies
to all frames created within a
MacWrite Pro document.

• A new column icon enables users
to create muluple columns at the
click of the button on the niler.

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Column widthscanbe easily varied
using the mouse and the option
key.

• Borders, colour fill-ins and
patterns can be created for all

frames.

• Tracking capability allows users
to change the spacing between
characters.

ADDits. A Modular Way to Add
Functionality

• ADD its are mini applications that
work within the constraints of a
frame and allow users to accomplish
a variety of tasks independent of
MacWrite Pro. To add a ADDit to
MacWrite Pro. a user simply drags
it into the Claris folder in the System
folder. The inclusion of the ADDit
appears as an additional icon on
the Tools palette, giving the user
instant access to the new

ft met tonality.

• Table and Quick Note ADDits are
bundled with MacWrite Pro. The
Table ADDit provides the ability to
create tables. Quick Notes allow
users to paste small notes
containing text and /or sound on a
document. More ADDits are being
developed by Claris and third party
developers.

Advanced Word Processing
Functionality:

• Claris XTND architecture allows
users to easily import and export
files to other applications on
Macintosh, IBM-PC or mainframe
systems. MacWrite Pro features
support for more than 50 file
formats including Microsoft Word
(Mac and IBM-PC versions),
WordPerfect (Mac and IBM-PC
versions), WriteNow. MacWrite.

DCA. and RTF.

• Mail merge capabilities allow users
to create persnalised form letters
and mailings that are simple and
convenient to use.

• Complete page-oriented
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What
You Get) capabilities allow users to
see changes immediately on the
screen as they will appear in print.

• Sophisticated and easy formatting
with page preview mode, the ability
to sec invisible markers such as
returns and spaces, hyphenation,
precision formatting options and
the ability to edit even when in
reduced mode. Additional
capabilities include footnotes and
endnotes, precise line spacing, and
left /right page designations.

• An extensive on-line help system
for direct access to reference
information without leaving the
application.

• Built-in virus protection.

Target Customers: MacWrite Pro
can be tailored to meet the needs of
virtually any word processor user.
Business professionals will use
MacWrite Pro for every day word
processing needs as well as for
developing more complex
documents such as project
proposals, business plans or
newsletters that might include
charts, graphs and coloiir. Multi-
authored documents that
incorporate data from a variety of
applications, such as Claris Resolve
orthe FileMaker Pro™ application.
will also be created using MacWrite
Pro.

University students and faculty
will use MacWrite Fro for course
work, lesson plans, group
presentations, correspondence and
reports which feature graphic
representations of data.
Current MacWrite 11 users
already familiar with the MacWrite
interface can upgrade to access the
enhanced productivity tools,
desktop publishing capability and
additional functionality of MacWrite

Pro.

New Macintosh buyers will have

access to the best word processing

package for System 7 and an easy-

to learn application that can grow

with them as their needs expand.

In-Package Support Materials:

• Getting Started manual, including
installation informal ion and tutorial
disks

• User's Guide

• Quick Reference Guide

• Templates for memos, resumes,
newsletters and other documents

• On-line context-sensitive help
system

System Requirements and
Compatibility:

• Macintosh Plus. Classic, SE
family. 1 1 family. LC or portable
computer.

• Hard disk drive

• 1 MB RAM required (2 MB for 16
or 256 colours; 4 MB for thousands
or millions of colours)

• System 6.0.5 or higher, or AH IX
2.0 or higher

Pricing and Availability

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MacWrite Pro will ship in the UK in
the autumn, 1991.

The suggested retail price in the
UK is £175. Current UK owners of
any version of MacWrite may
upgrade to MacWrite Pro for £45.
Current UK owners of Microsoft
Word. T/Maker's WriteNow. and
WordPerfect may sidegrade to
MacWrite Pro for £55.

Exclusive UK distribution is
through Frontline Distribution.
Intec 1, Wade Road. Basingstoke.
Hants RG24 ONE. Tel:
0256.463344.

For upgrade order forms and
information telephone

0800.899005. Users in the Republic
of Ireland should phone Dublin
(01)767.814.

Any UK purchaser of MacWrite
1 1 betweenMay 13. 1991 and when
MacWrite Pro ships will receive free
upgrades to MacWrite Pro.
MacWrite 11 Is compatible with
System 7.

MacProject 11 Version 2.5

MacProject™ 1 1 version 2.5 Is the
latest release of the best-selling
project management programme
for the Macintosh.

MacProject 11 v2.5 offers
powerful and flexible management
tools for anyone with a Macintosh
who plans, schedules, tracks and
presents projects of any size.

System 7 Functionality: One of a
family of Claris™ System 7
applications. MacProject 11 v2.5
takes advantage of the powerful
functionality of the new Macintosh
operating system from Apple
Computer. Inc.

MacProject 11 v2.5 offers
intcrapphcation communication
(IAC) links, or "Exchange," with
Claris Spreadsheet, the first
Macintosh spreadsheet designed
specifically to take advantage of
System 7. for extensible project
management solutions. The direct
Exchange luiks let users produce
seven new pro) eel graphs and tables
while providing the capability lo
customise MacProject 11 with
additional reports-
Key Enhancements:
Direct Links ("Exchange") to
Claris Resolve

• Use built-in links with Claris
Resolve to create seven new project
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flow, earned value, project cost,
resource cost, project summary,
resource work, and sorted project.

• Customise MacPro)ect 1 1 by
linking spreadsheet scripts to create
your own graphs and reports.

■ The MacProJect 11 v2.5
"Exchange" feature works under
both System 6.x and System 7
operating systems.

Features and Benefits:
Complete Planning and
Management Flexibility

• Automatic Critical Path Method
(CPM) calculation helps spot critical
tasks Instantly.

• Plan and track an unlimited
number of tasks graphically wilh
PERT and Gantt Charts.

• Use Resource Timeline and
Histogram to visually manage
resource workloads and detect
overallocations and slack periods.
•View and present data for selected
tasks in a customisable project
summary table.

• Calculate project date and cost
information using cither planned
or actual data.

• Use subproject linking and
consolidation capabilities to
manage complex projects.

• Plan and monitor project cash
flow automatically calculated from
task and resource costs.

• Display multiple charts
simultaneously forcomplete project
overview.

• Use stationery documents to
create reusable project templates
featuring preferred fonts, logos and
legends, as well as calendars,
resources and project tasks.

• Customise and save mu ltiplc chart
screen displays for easy data entry
and project analysis.

• Create Cash Flow. Earned Value,
and other tables and graphs via
Exchange with Claris Resolve.

Powerful Resource Management
Capabilities:

• Automatic and interactive
resource levelling lets users spot
and resolve overallocations of
personnel and equipment.

• A resource levelling log shows
impact of resource levelling on
project schedules and offers a view
of the project schedule with undo
levelling changes available at any
time.

• Cross-project resource analysis
capabilities enable users to spot
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working on multiple projects
simultaneously.

• Unlimited resource calendars
allow users to create unique,
independent calendars, including
custom work availability and
holidays for all resources.

Professional Chart and Report
Generation:

• Use search formulas to create
customtablesandlimelinestoshow
task information by resource,
department, date, or otherspecified
criteria.

• Create custom reports by linking
spreadsheet scripts to your own
MacProJect 1 1 menu commands.

• Text and graphic annotations
allow users to communicate more
effectively: add PICT and PICT2
images from MacDraw™ 11,
MacDraw Pro. Claris CAD. and
other applications.

• Variable document size for
reducing or enlarging complex
charts from 25 to 400 percent.

• Includes plotter drivers that
support colour output on pen
plotters up to - E" size.

• A spell checker ensures spelling
accuracy with built-in 100,000-
word dictionary.

Enhanced Workgroup

Productivity:

• Import and Export MacProJect 1 1
data - in ASCII. UIK. and SYLK
formats - with other Macintosh.
IBM PC. and mainframe
applications.

• MacProJect 11 offers network
compatibility for maximising
productivity in workgroup
environments.

• Use subprojects to plan and track
detailed activities and consolidate
data in a master plan for overview.

Target Customers:

• Project managers use MacProJect
11 for planning, tracking, and
presenting projects of all size. Often
concerned with big budget, high
risk projects. MacProJect 11 helps
project managers focus on meeting
schedules and deadlines, allocating
and managing resources, and
tracking project costs. Common
project applications include
engineering, aerospace,
construction, manufacturing, and
architecture.

• General business planners use
MacProJect 11 to plan, manage,
and communicate proj ects in a wide

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range of less technical settings such
as marketing projects, event
planning and publishing.

Support Materials in Package;

•MacProJect 1 1 manual with Quick
Reference

• "Getting Started with MacProJect
11" booklet

• Interactive HyperTour training
disk

• On-line Help System

System Requirements:
Required Equipment

• Macintosh Plus, SE, Classic,SE30,
LC, Portable, or

1 1 family of computers.

• Two 800K floppy disk drives; hard
drive recommended

• System 6.0 or later; also System 7
compatible; A/UX

1 . 1 or later

• Memory: 1 MB minimum

Optional Equipment

•AppleShare file server, MultlFindcr

• Colour monitor

• Apple LaserWriter, LaserWriter
Plus, LaserWriter 1 1 NT,

NTX, or SC. Apple ImageWriter, 1 1
orLQ.

• Hewlett-Packard and Houston
Instruments colour

plotters up to "E" size

Availabllity/Pricc:

MacProJect 11 2.5 will ship in the
UK in June. 1991 .

The suggested retail price in the
UK is £395. For upgrade order
forms and Information telephone
0800.899005. Users in the Republic
of Ireland should phone Dublin
(01) 767.814.

Macintosh and MultiFinder are
registered trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc. Houston
Instrument is a registered
trademark of AMETECK. Inc.
Hewlett-Packard is a registered
trademark of Hewlett-Packard
Company. IBM is a registered
trademark of International
Business Machines Corporation.
DIF is a registered trademark of
Lotus Development Corporation.

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Hypermedia: The Multiple
Message

Develop ment Opportunities on the
Macintosh by Craig Ragland.
Part 2 of an article in two parts.

To create a viable alternative, your
product will require sufficient
distinguishing characteristics that
it will attract prospective
hypermedia developers. Not only
must it be sufficiently different
from HyperCard as it is currently
Implemented, but it must not be
made obsolete by the upcoming
HyperCard version 2.0 and all the
increasingly successful

HyperCard add-on products. This
would seem a rather scary race for
any company to enter.

Another issue for those who
would create and market an
alternative Macintosh- based
hypermedia application is that
your product u scrs will be standing
alone. HyperCard developers
currently enjoy an unprecedented
symbiosis and acceleration of the
state-of-the-art in HyperCard
development. Through learning-
by-example, hundreds of different
approaches toward any given topic
have probably already been
explored. Not only are there many
great HyperCard stacks in public
domain, but there are dozens of
outstanding commercial slacks.
This level of user-support for a
development environment would
be hard to replicate on the
Macintosh.

All this, unfortunately, is likely to
drive would-be hypermedia system
developers on the Macintosh to
other development platforms.
However, an alternative is to
consider creating a HyperCard
add-on product. This market
actually oilers many similar
development opportunities (see
next section).

Extending or Creating Tools for
Existing Hypermedia Products
One of the most exciting product
categories for HyperCard has been

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developer tools and extensions to
HyperCard. Currently available
products let HyperCard
developers:

• Run relational data bases.

• Control higher quality animation.

• Add digitised sound.

• Add new visual effects.

• Add new interface capabilif ies.

• Generate ICON resources.

• Generate CURSor resources.

• Generate MENU resources.

• Use colour on properly equipped
Mac lis.

• Create fractal graphics.

• Print more effectively.

• Control PICT resources.

• Play MIDI instruments.

• Dump PostScript.

• Open full-sized Pa int Documents.

• Move resources among stacks.

• Communicate across local
networks.

• Control serial devices.

• Collect data from laboratory
instruments.

• Scan documents on flatbed
scanners.

• Grab data from video sources.

The majority of these products
are aimed squarely at HyperCard
developers. HyperCard developers
create HyperCard stacks for
personal use, use within their
businesses, and for other end
users. To the extent that a tool
increases the productivity of a
user, it will be appreciated. There
are several opportunities for basic
new capabilities which have not
been commercially exploited.
Given the focus of this article it is
important to note that only a
portion of HyperCard developers
create hypermedia. The vast
majority of public domain stacks
follow data base models and are
based on structured records.

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rather than linked non sequential
data.

A critical issue, which a
prospective developer of
HyperCard extensions and tools
must consider, revolves around
copyright and licensing. If you
provide users with a new
capability, will they be able to
redistribute your work? If so. on
what basis? There are literally
hundreds of XCMDs which are
freely distributed in the so-called

"public domain" or "share-ware"

markets. The vast majority of these
carry copyright notices by their
authors. This means that they are
NOT public domain and that the
author retains the right to control
the distribution of the product. If
you wish to incorporate their work
into your own projects or products,
you must get (preferably written)
permission from the copyright
holder.

It is important that you clearly
address this issue if you
commercially provide I lyperCard
tools or extensions that others may
want to distribute as part of their
own work. It has become fairly
common to distinguish between
site licenses and commercial
distribution licenses. Some
products have established Hat fee
rates for site licenses, and royalties
for commercially distributed
extensions. In the commercial
product " 10 1 Scripts & Buttons for
HyperCard'" (which was created by
the author of this article), the
publisher has bundled
redistribution rights into the
purchase price of $69.95. This is
an extremely aggressive posture
which is likely to result In
widespread use of the included
extensions. Since the product
includes such basic user-interface
extensions as the ability to add
menus, pick up and move buttons
and fields, selecting screen
regions, and resizing standard
HyperCard buttons and fields,
without leaving browse mode, it
enables hypermedia developers to
add many Mac-iike capabilities to
their HyperCard stacks.

There arc many other fairly basic
capabilities which are missing
from HyperCard. When

considering possible HyperCard
tools or extensions you are forced
into playing a guessing game about
what Bill Atkinson and the Apple
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add to future versions. After all.
there Is little reason to expend
time, effort, and money developing
capabilities which Apple will give
away free in a future release.
Becoming an Apple-seeded
developer is one way to get some
advance notice. The best way to
accomplish this is by releasing a
commercial product which
demonstrates you have a clear
nccd-to-know.

As various articles have pointed
out. HyperCard does have
limitations, and there are many
capabilities which would improve
it. Some which would truly benefit
many developers and end users
include:

• Navigational support in the form
of graphical browsers.

• Enhanced textual or even
graphical searches and sorting.

• Independently manipulable,
field-based graphics.

• Real hypertext within text fields.

• A dialog box editor.

• Floating pallets.

• Any number of higher level

development tools.

Apple is likely to add some of
these features to future HyperCard
versions. If you're able to second-
guess them and also successfully
market any of these extensions,
you'll make some money.

Creating Information
Management Applications

HyperCard is an effective tool for
creating some types of information
management applications. The
principal constraint is the
relatively poor performance of
HyperTalk for some op erations and
the lack of some common database
features (most significantly the
lack of common data base search
or sort criteria and the lack of data
validation). HyperTalk Is
particularly slow at multi-record
processing. If a particular
application requires that frequent
totals be computed, then
HyperCard would probably be a
poor choice. On the other hand, it
might well be acceptable to
periodically dump data out of
HyperCard and load it into a
predefined spreadsheet template
for multi-record data processing.

The lack of any runtime fees for
HyperCard-based applications
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advantage. While other data base
environments often offer better
performance, the run-lime fees
involved may price the resulting
applications out of range for many
prospective users. HyperCard is
also considerably more flexible
than most data base development
programs in letting the
hypermedia developer control the
types and forms of user
interaction. While HyperCard
developers can create new styles of
interactions (such as knobs that
turn or toggles that Hip or sliding
controls that slide), this level of
extreme flexibilily is rare in other
development environments. In
addition. the widespread
availability of predefined
capabilities that can be directly
plugged into your application (see
section on HyperCard extensions
and tools) can make the
construction of applications quite
inexpensive.

Danny Goodman's Focal Point is
the best known example of a
HyperCard-based information
management application (actually
several different. slightly
integrated, applications). Recently,
several competing products have
been released including:
Organizer+ published by Dazd;
Client published by Soft works, and
Hyper-Action published by Mulli
Solutions. These products all
extend some or all portions of Focal
Point; a new version of Focal Point
is due out shortly as well.

HyperCard-based information
management applications are
somewhat like toys built out of
Legos. Just as it is possible to lake
a Lego toy and modify its basic
structure and function.
HyperCard-based applications
can be extended and modified to
meet varying needs. However, to
date we have yet to see HyperCard
stacks designed explicitly to be
modified. Existing applications
have followed traditional software
models and attempt to deliver
finished applications and not user-
modifiable capabilities. Just jump
into Focal Point or its clones and
delete various fields and buttons-
it destroys function. If you delete
critical components, the loss will
ripple throughout the different
stacks. This is much less friendly
than a Lego spaceship, which can
easily transform into a Lego
Submarine.

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Some end users would love
information applications which
are really easy to modify— and this
means without any scripting. This
would allow a general information
management program to be
customised for a particular vertical
market. Interface extensions could
be used to let users view the
function of a particular button or
field using a higher level
perspective, and then add. delete,
or change that object's
functionality. This could be
accomplished using an icon-based
representation scheme. A couple of
interesting products which use
such icon-based programming
include Odesta's Helix and
Mainstay's VIP.

There are ample opportunities
for vertical market information
management products.

Knowledgeable developers can
tailor HyperCard stacks to meet
specific information needs, his
makes it possible to produce much
less expensive vertical market
solutions than previously feasible.

Creating a vertical market
"product" can also result from
creating a custom "project" for a
business client. It is sometimes
feasible to arrange a joint venture
with an existing business in the
vertical market of interest. This can
be quite beneficial to both parties,
as it should raise the value of your
work. In your client's eyes you are
raised above a simple work-for-
hire contractor, as your work
becomes a part of their existing and
future business. Clients typically
benefit by receiving more software
development for their financial
investment, and the potential of a
highly valued product. As a
developer, you will benefit from
having extensive access to an
expert and real-world test ground
in the vertical market, as well as
support for a product's
development.

Creating Custom Hypermedia
Projects for Business Clients

Presently, it seems likely that many
more developers arc employed
creating hypermedia projects for
particular businesses than are
producing general products for a
mass market. Project types are as
varied as all the other categories in
this section. The key advantages to
creating a custom project for a

particular company are (1) you arc
assured your project will have a
market. (2) a series of successful
projects steadily reduces the
amount of marketing required to
bring in further work, and (3) you
can often rely on the income of
long-term or large projects.

Creating custom projects as an
outside consultant, instead ~f as
an employee, can also be quite
lucrative. The basic financial
alternatives are to bill at an hourly
rate or to bid a price for a total
project. Hourly rates for
HyperCard developers in the
Seattle area ranges from about
$10/hour for part timing
moonlighters to about $75/hour
for established consultants. Bids
are based on the project scope, but
range from a few hundred to tens of
thousands of dollars. The
downside of developing software
independently is that you have
veiy little security. The upside is
trial the income can be significant
and you own all of your blue sky.

The best way to maximise your
leverage in creating custom work is
to develop expertise in a particular
vertical market, and then deliver
custom hypermedia projects
tailored to that market. This lets
you more effectively understand
and fulfil your client's particular
needs, it also makes tt easier to
reuse work created for one client in
future projects. Focusing on a
particular market segment,
however, may be a luxury which
only comes after you routinely
meet the basic costs of doing
business.

Creating Information Products
Using Hypermedia

Information products are those
which focus on the informational
content of the product rather than
the product's data management
utility. There are relatively few
commercial products in this
domain, through this is definitely
an area of tremendous potential
growth. Some existing or soon-to-
be released information products
include: DTP Advisor by
Broderbund. Business Class by
Medlagenics. The Manhole by
Prolog Software, and Beginners
Guide to HyperTcxt by
Intcllibooks. Other information
"products" which have been
distributed by Apple Computer
include the HyperCard version of

The Information Exchange (which
is freely supplied to Apple Certified
Developers) and the Mac World
Public Information Kiosk stacks.

Information products can also be
separated into a different classes:
Public Access. Instructional/
Educational. Reference, and
Entertainment. Each individual
project or product has different
design requirements and
constraints. However, the
similarities within each of these
classes call for some individual
discussion.

PubUc Access Hypermedia

For public access systems, the
chief design constraint is the lack
of user experience with a
Macintosh or any other computer.
Fortunately. HyperCard makes it
fairly simple to create easy-to-use
systems. In general, public access
systems must abandon almost
everything Apple has attempted to
mandate in their excellent text
Human Interface Guidelines: The
Apple Desktop Interface. While
these guidelines are critical for
creating consistent user Interfaces
for software intended for Mac
users, the general public is not
Mac-literate. This means that
systems which should be
immediately usable by naive users,
you must abandon any Interface
item which is not intuitive and
immediately recognisable. Some
examples of interface components
which are common in HyperCard
(and other applications), but are
difficult for the Mac-illiterate
include: modal dialog boxes (users
don't know that they have to deal
with the dialog box before
continuing), scrolling text fields
(users don't know what they arc
and how they work), standard
check boxes (users don't know it's
really a toggle switch between two
conditions), and radio buttons
(users don't know they are
mutually exclusive switches). In
HyperCard, it is often difficult for
users to distinguish between what
is hot and what is not.

All of these issues are best
addressed by replacing the
Macintosh standard items with
highly graphic alternatives. For
example, to let the user toggle
between two alternative states, use
a graphic toggle switch which looks
and behaves like a light switch.
This can be fairly easily created

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using alternative ICONS, with
appropriate scripting. Examples of
these and numerous other
functional and visually effective
buttons are found in Stack Starter
by Robertson Smith and 101
Scripts & Buttons for HyperCard
published by Individual Software
(and created by the author of this
article).

Another constraint for public
access systems is the potential for
vandalism and theft. Macintoshes
are valuable and must be either
used in safe environments, or
sufficiently protected for use in a
public setting. Related to this is the
vulnerability of the mouse. Mice
are also more difficult for first- time
users than alternative pointing
devices. Designers of public access
systems should consider both
touch screens and industrial
strength track balls. Touch
screens present a different set of
constraints for designers—
principally that objects must be
larger to hit properly, and that
fingers obscure an awful lot of the
screen.

The opportunities for public
access information systems seem
quite extensive. There are many
information-intensive settings
which would benefit significantly
from effective hypermedia
products. These include many
different medical and dental
settings, public information desks
In hotels and stores, trade show
directories, public transportation,
banking information, telephone
support systems, and in-store
directories. This is another area
where custom development and
product development overlap.

Instructional /Educational
Hypermedia

One of the heaviest areas of
HyperCard development is in
education and training.
HyperCard offers an extremely rich
environment for development of
training materials for almost any
subject matter. The third annual
CD-ROM conference book.
"Interactive Multimedia: Visions of
Multimedia for Developers.
Educators. & Information
Providers" describes several
different education projects, using
HyperCard as well as other
multimedia software products.
Computer-based training has
come a long way from the simple

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programmed text models of
Skinner and others, though some
have noted the similarities of
highly interbranched. computer-
based courses and the linked node
hypertext model.

There is need For products which
support developers of HyperCard-
based training projects and
products. Wltile creating simple,
branching card trees is easy using
the vanilla version of HyperCard,
the creation of more complex
systems requires some
sophisticated programming.
Hypermedia based training
materials should treat users with
more respect than forcing them to
wade through long paths of
inappropriate materials. The
specific materials presented on a
particular subject can be
dependent on one or more previous
decisions, instead of being
hardwired, as simple CDT
programs tend to be. In addition,
hypermedia challenges us to
develop different approaches
toward tracking and monitoring a
learner's progress through
material. While traditional
approaches would test and quiz,
hypermedia approaches might let

users grab data alongtheirtripsfor
later synthesis and reporting.

HyperCard-based training
software yells out for some fonn of
higher level branch management
aids and development tools. This
approach is used heavily by Course
of Action by AuthorWare. which
also offers a significant alternative
development environment for this
class of applications.

Training products, which
provide training materials for
particular processes or tasks, are
another potential development
opportunity. To date, the bulk of
training software seems to be
oriented around training end users
on the use of other commercially
successful software packages. One
of the leading publishers in this
field is Individual Software, which
publishes Individual Training for
PageMaker, as well as numerous
PC-based products. Another
interesting product, HyperTutor
by Channel Mark, is an interactive
training product for HyperTalk.
HyperTutor is. however, highly text
oriented and provides little for
anyone who has gone beyond the
basics of HyperTalk.

There may well be significant

potential for HyperCard based
training products. Producing
training stacks is an extremely
active area within the business
community, where the costs of
training are increasingly well
understood. Just as using
Macintoshes instead of PCs saves
significant training costs; creating
HyperCard-based training

materials is more efficient than
paper-based or classroom
training. The utter effectiveness of
using skilled teachers to produce
outstanding materials which
benefit students over and over
again will eventually result in
extensive development of
hypermedia based training and
educational materials.

Reference

Many users have placed their
personal reference materials into
HyperCard stacks. Its high-speed
Find command and ability to
branch according to the
idiosyncratic wishes of an author
make it an excellent environment
for storing cross-referenced
information. Several large
companies have also produced

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extensive product information
stacks for use by in-house sales
personnel. In addition, several
HyperCard-based CD-ROM
reference projects are currently
under development by major
publishers. One of the more
interesting projects is a HyperCard
version of the Whole Earth
Catalogue, to be published by
Broderbund. A sample version of
this was distributed on the Apple
Learning Disc (a demo disc
produced by Apple and given away
at the unveiling of the Apple CD
ROM player), and it is marvellous.
It makes highly effective use of
different graphic styles for the
various sections.

One of the more extensive
HyperCard-based reference
projects in widespread use today is
Cameo 11. produced by NOAA.
This innovative system contains a
data base of several thousand
hazardous materials, and allows
users to develop local geographic
information systems. It also helps
manage the hazardous material
containment process by projecting
wind plume area for spills. This
aids firefighters In decisions
regarding protective clothing,
breathing" apparatus, evacuation,
and neutralisation procedures.
Several fire departments have
equipped emergency response
vehicles with on-board Macintosh
systems and are able to identify
and cope with toxic chemicals right
at the site.

There arc many kinds of
reference materials which could
benefit from release in hypermedia
formats. However, the tasks of
moving the rial a into digital form
and structuring it for effective use
can be immense. Such projects
oflen require very large budgets,
particularly if the legal rights to the
data must be purchased, or if
significant reworking of the data is
required.

On the other hand, some
extremely valuable reference
materials may be readily available
in digital forms. For instance,
extremely time-sensitive reports
and papers are sold for several
hundred to many thousands of
dollars. These include reports on
emerging markets, financial
information, investment research,
feasibility studies, etc. When
reference material is that valuable.
it can be quite cost-effective to both

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produce it using an information
processing tool and deliver it using
an information environment which
adds value to the data. Today the
vast majority of such reports arc
produced on computers (using
word processors and page layout
software) and delivered in paper
form. Tomorrow they will all be
delivered digitally and probably
utilising hypermedia software.
Some innovative companies will
begin publishing such materials in
HyperCard today.

Entertainment

The single largest class of
information consumed by the
average member of our culture is
within the realm of entertainment.
We are inundated by a barrage of
media In the form of television.
radio, films, and print. While some
media is oriented around
informing the user, many others
are pure escapist entertainment.
Hypermedia, with Us capability of
letting users actively participate,
instead of just passively viewing
other's interactions, should prove
a very popular alternative for a
great many people.

There are numerous commercial
Macintosh games and

entertainment products which
could be easily created using
HyperCard. One of the more
attractive existing entertainment
products is The Manhole, by
ProLog Software. This marvellous
product is aimed at kids from 3 to
8 years of age and links hundreds
of beautifully crafted graphic cards
with high levels of care and craft.
Kids and adults alike respond to
this attractive package with a true
sense of wonder and excitement.

A major constraint on delivering
HyperCard-based entertainment
products is the size of highly
graphic or audio oriented stacks.
The Manhole fills five 800K disks,
which makes it a product with a
pretty high overhead cost.
Entertainment products demand
extensive use of graphics and
sound. Using existing

technologies, this requires large
data spaces. The high price Apple
attached to its CD ROM player has
made it a still exotic peripheral, so
producing CD ROMs for this
market segment remains difficult
to justify, though many software
companies are exploring this
market. The problem with selling

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CD ROM players is that there are so
few interesting CD ROM discs. If
you need a particular CD ROM
disc, then you will buy a CD ROM
player. Very few will buy expensive
peripherals for entertainment
reasons.

While data space limitations are
problematic today, we can
anticipate these will be solved by
hardware innovations in the fairly
short term. The 256 Meg Read/
Write optical disc bundled with the
NeXT Computer is a nice example
of where we are headed. While a
$50/disc overhead on the Next
distribution media presents
difficulties, we can expect hybrid
optical disc players which read
mass produced discs (like existing
CD Audio discs) and also let end
users write to user discs of a
different Format.

While it is nice to hope that
hypermedia entertainment
products will be of a higher calibre
than existing media, this seems
rather unrealistic. The beauty of
well-designed hypennedia is thai
users can control their access.
However, if the quality of the
content is low. a high level of
control over access adds little —
though it does allow one to more
easily avoid vast amounts of
uninteresting data.

The Software Designer of a New

Type

Hypermedia development is in its
infancy. It lets information
workers, as opposed to just
programmers, assemble

interesting software, much of
which has significant market
potential. When Bill Atkinson
spoke at a meeting of the Seattle-
based Downtown Business Users
Group, he asked how many people
there were HyperCard developers
who were thinking of commercially
distributing their stackware.
About 200 out of the 800 attendees
indicated they had such plans.
HyperCard has created a new class
of software designers and many
will succeed in several different
software categories.

Reprinted from Maclech
Quarterly. TechAlliance. 290 SW
43rd Street. Renton. WA 98055.

June 1991

Club Business

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting
of BAS.U.G. Ltd., April 13th 1991.

Minutes of the Annual General
Meeting of B.A.S.U.G. Ltd.

Thirty-two members of the club
were present and a further twelve
were represented by proxy.
The meeting was opened at 1 1.20
a.m.

1. Minutes of the last Annual
General Meeting held on April
28th, 1990.

The attention of those present was
drawn to the minutes for the AGM
of 1990 which were published in
the magazine for June 1990. The
Chairman asked for comments or
questions on these but none were
forthcoming.
Mike Bass proposed that the

minutes of the AGM oi 1990 were
accepted as a true record of that
meeting and this was seconded by
Ron Thompson. The proposal was
passed unanimously and the
Chairman signed and dated the
minutes.

2. The Chairman's Report from
Ewen Wannop

Welcome. As you all of course know
Apple2000 is run by volunteers.
Some of those are in the forefront
and sit with me as part of the
committee. However Apple2000
has many others who help make
the whole machine work smoothly.
I would like to thank all who have
put something into the group over
the past year. The committee will
make their own reports to you, but
1 would like to thank them for a
smooth and relatively uneventful
year.

I would especially like to thank
John Lee. John is disabled and
unable to attend the AGM. His
stalwart efforts in keeping the
Force going, disk copying and in
dealing with local User Groups is
much appreciated. I also need to

June 1991

thank Keith Chamberlain who
keeps the database in order, prints
all the address labels, and
duplicates the ApplcXtras disks.
Keith has been helping Applc2000
for many years now.

Dave Ward is another who
needs special mention. Dave runs
the Apple II Hotline and fields all
those awkward questions that you
all seem to come up with. Judging
by the number of puzzled letters I
get, many of you do not seem to
realise that Dave Is sitting at the
end of the phone waiting to solve
your problems!

Tony Dart who had been
running the Hotline for some time,
found that pressure of work within
the expanding DTP industry meant
he just could not continue to carry
this task on. Ou r thanks toTony for
his help and also our thanks to
John Arnold who took on the role of
Macintosh Hotline coordinator at
short notice.

During the year we were able to
spread the various work loads of
Apple20O0 and as a result we no
longer require the services of an
administrator. I would like to thank
Alison Davies for all the work she
has done for Apple200O over the
years.

1 would also like to thank Mike
Davies. Alison's husband, for
organising the workshops over the
past year. The recent workshop at
Bidmuthin was especially
successful and brought together
the Macintosh and Apple II sides of
the group.

Finally, I must thank all those
who helped us on the Apple2000
stand at both the MacUser and the
Macworld Shows. It was during the
MacUser Show that Apple2000.
nee BASUG. celebrated its tenth
birthday. We opened a bottle of
champagne and ate a delicious

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cake that Mike Dawson baked for
us. Thanks Mike, though I did not
realise that HyperCard stacks
could be baked in three
dimensions and round! We decided
to mark the first ten years of the
groups history with a special
souvenir booklet. This was sent out
with the November mailing and will
have brought many a memory back
to those who have been with the
Apple over the years.

Mentioning shows brings me to

the various events we have
organised over the year. As a
national group, we Just cannot
meet in the way that we might like.
The AGM is really the only event
where we can all get together over
the year. However we do hold
workshops when wc can at friendly
dealers. The Bidmuthin workshop
has become an annual event. We
attend those shows we can, and
had a very successful MacUser and
MacWorld Show. These shows are
important to be able to spread the
word to new users. We gained
many a new member by simply
being able to answer their
questions without a hard sell!

During the year we found that
the membership of the Force was
falling. The exorbitant prices that
Telecom Gold charge, and the
growing alternatives, helped in this
process. There came a point where
we felt it was impossible to keep it
going. We still have many unpaid
debts from some of the members
Force accounts, and these debts
helped make our minds up.
Telecom Gold agreed to take on any
existing accounts without any
extra charges. Therefore from last
November we no longer have the
Force as one of our services.

Overlapping this process, we
have been promoting CompuServe
as an alternative data network
CompuServe Is the largest online
database in the world, and Is
accessible from the UK at very
competitive prices. There is a large
secUon devoted to Apple with vast
download libraries. This brings me
on to our own Bulletin Board
TABBS. TABBS forges on
regardless. Our regular callers
span the whole world, and it is
seldom sitting idle, day or night!
Efforts have been made during the
year to expand the system. The
hard drives are full at present, and
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expand the storage without
spending too much money. We
have upgraded the modem during
Hie year, and now oiler full MNP
error correction. We should be
updating the software to the latest
version soon and t his will bring the
new modem truly into its own and
offer speeds up to 9G0O baud!

May I remind you all that the
magazine is filled with
contributions from members. The
reviews and articles are primarily
written by you, the membership. If
we do not get the material from you .
we have to fill with whatever we
can. Please write something and
send it to us. Even if it isjust a short
description of how you use your
computer. It will be of interest to
someone. Those who would like to
be added to the list of reviewers
Should contact Elizabeth
Littlewood, the review coordinator.
There was one cloud on the
horizon during the last year. A
member who had approached us
with a disk problem, inadvertently
passed on to us a virus. The virus
was relatively innocuous and was
dealt with quite quickly. The
learning experience in dealing with
the problem was used as the basis
of a letter to Slices. The member in
question took exception to this and
asked for an apology. This was
given in the next magazine to be
published. lie continued to pursue
the matter however and so
Apple2000 decided to take legal
advice. With the advice that we had
done nothing wrong we resisted
attempts to make us pay his legal
costs. Finally he decided to sue us
for libel. We took advice at this
point from expert libel lawyers in
London and finally he retracted the
writ. The legal costs were
considerable and are listed under
'Professional fees' in the accounts.
It is a dangerous business being a
publisher sometimes!

The big shake-up in the Apple
community during the year was
the sudden but not entirely
unexpected launch of budget
Macintosh computers. I have
written quite a lot about the impact
these might have on us all. Wc
certainly saw signs at the
MacWorld Show that there is a new
breed of user now to consider.
Things have started to change
already. With a starter Macintosh
and printer pack available for
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can no longer be given as a reason
for not joining the Apple
cornmunity. System 7.0 will be
with us in a few weeks time. A
pocketbook Mac is expected by the
end of the year. The only thing I do
not know is when A\ ;;le w ill launch
the super llgs! Help spread the
word about Apple2000, contribute
to the largest Apple User Group in
the UK. and we shall grow even
stronger.

3. The Secretary's Report from
Norah Arnold

The Committee as elected at the
AGM In 1990 was Ewen as
Chairman, Irene as Treasurer,
myself as Secretary and John Lcc.
Elizabeth Littlewood and John
Arnold were elected as Committee
members. I am pleased to say that
the membership of the Committee
has stayed the same for the whole
year. Also the commitment shown
by the members of the Committee
has stayed as high as ever and
attendance at Committee meetings
has been excellent. 1 would like to
point out that attending meetings
means giving up a whole day at the
weekend now and again because of
the travelling and preparation
involved.

I would like to thank Irene and
Ewen for the high level of their
commitment and also thank
Elizabeth for the help she has given
with reviews. I would also like to
give my personal thanks to those
who have helped by sending in
reviews and articles, often about
software which they have
purchased themselves, and I
mention Mike Dawson. Peter
Kemp. Ceri Fisher. Geoff Wood and
John Kishimoto particularly here.
As you may have noticed, the
Macintosh Hotline number has
changed. Many thanks to Tony
Dart who helped on this front for a
considerable time. My husband.
John Arnold, has taken on the
Hotline job and I can now say from
personal experience that what
other Hotline people have said is
true. You can get several very quiet
evenings with hardly any calls at
all. then you will get an evening
when it seems that almost every
Macintosh member has a problem!
As regards the Macintosh
Library, good new Public domain
software Is harder to come by. We
are getting mainly updated
versions of old and trusted

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favourites. The number of offerings
to the Library from members has
fallen off. If you do have a good
piece of public domain software
that you haven't seen mentioned
on the Library pages, send it in and
I will be happy to return your disk
withyourcholcc of Library PD on it.

We have had to make some hard
decisions this year, mainly
financial ones concerning the
support that was previously given
by Alison Davies and also
concerning the Force and the
expansion of TABBS. Although we
regretted having to take them,
these decisions have been taken
without any dissent.

I would particularly like to
thank Keith Chamberlain for his
loyal support and help with both
the membership database and the
Force database.

4. Treasurer's Report from Irene
Flaxman

There was an operating deficit in
the year, which we aim to redress.
There were a number of
contributing factors — some of
which were predicted, but others
were unexpected.

The costs of printing increased
by 8%. for the first time in a number
of years. 'I tic costs of postage increase
each year, but wc have also lost the
facility for claiming a discount on the
bulk mailing of magazines and
newsletters . These two increases in
costs, plus the legal fees and the
costs of consumables used in-
house approximately equate to the
amount of the deficit .

We had foreseen that the year-
end would see this trend, therefore
a proposal was put before last
year's AG. M. that the membership
subscription rates should be
increased. This was the first
increase in subscriptions for about
live years, and it took effect from
1st November 1990.

H.M. Customs & Excise decided
it was time to inspect our records at
the end of 1990. The Inspector was
generally happy with our records,
and with our application of the tax.
However, an assessment for unpaid
tax was raised because we had not
realised that the subscriptions paid
by overseas members are taxable.
The proportion of our subscription
which is subject to tax has been
increased, and the recent increase
in the VAT rate has further reduced
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retained by the Group.

Looking at a few items in detail,
the main sources of income are
"magazine income" and "sales to
members". The former comprises
of members' subscriptions and
advertising revenue. Subscriptions
have increased, indicating an
increase in the number of members
— this provides the largest
contribution towards our running
costs. The advertising revenue
decreased, reilecting a general trend
as companies are trying to cut their

costs.

The reduction in expenses
attributed to the magazine is a little
misleading — the whole of the
printing costs in the preceding year
had been attributed to this
category, incorrectly.

Sales to members have
increased in total, although sales of
P.D. software has been relatively
static and sales of Special Release
software fell sharply. We are
constantly seeking out new P.D.
software, and this is becoming
quite costly, but we have found
little to add to the Special Release
library for some time. The
introduction of AppleXtras was
popular with many members, so
we are continuing this service.

We axe slowly increasing our
product range, which results in a
higher stock valuation. We still
maintain our policy of offering goods
at competitive prices, providing a
small contribution towards the
running costs of the Group.

Usage of the FORCE reduced
again. It still produced a slight
surplus, but the continuing
reduction in usage and the
outstanding debtors gave cause for
concern. Wc ceased to support the
service as from 1st November 1990.
having made arrangements for
current users to transfer to a direct
account with British Telecom.

Credit card charges have
increased despite the fact that we
negotiated a reduction in the rate.
The increase in costs reflects the
increased usage of Oils facility.

Some items of expenditure also
invite comment. I've already
mentioned the increases In
printing and postage costs, earlier.

Audit fees have reduced slightly.
We disputed last year's fee of £1700
and gained a reduction of £100.
which was accounted for during the
current year. Therefore, we paid
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proposed fee for 1998/90 is £1500.
We have not paid for any
advertising in magazines, due to the
high cost and the low response. The
figure shown under this heading
relates to mailshots undertaken.
However, promotional expenses have
increased — these include "free" gifts
to members, costs of attending trade
shows, and promotional items given
away at trade shows.

Telephone costs have been
reduced, due to concerted efforts
by the committee.

Subscriptions have risen
significantly. These include the
British Association of Computer
Clubs, and sources of P.D. software.
Bank charges have reduced,
following the change of bankers.

The "consumables" figure
represents in-house use of disks.
cartridges, toners, etc. This is
becoming more significant than
previously, as we prepare more of our
documentation in-house and as
the libraries increase in size. In prior
years, tliis cost has been retained
within the stock purchases figure,
but as these costs increase, it seems
appropriate to show them separately.
We have generally managed to
avoid high levels of bad debts,
generally. However, our auditors
felt it prudent to write off a debt of
over £800 in 1988/89. I am
pleased to report that we have
subsequently recovered £500 of
thisdebt. and this is reflected In the
accounts for 1 989/90.

The A.G.M. gives each of the
officers a chance to thank those who
have provided help during the year,
andl should like to thank all members
for their support — whether that is by
sending in contributions to the
magazine, helping with the hotlines
etc.. purchasing from Shop2000. or
simply subscribing to the Group —
all contributions are welcomed.

I'd also like to thank my fellow
committee-members for all their
support during the year, and Keith
Chamberlain for his help in
maintaining the membership
database, coping with AppleXtras
and invoicing the FORCE users.
Finally, I must thank my husband
for his patience and his help.

5. Adoption of the Accounts

Ron Thompson proposed the
adoption of the accounts and June
Savage seconded. The accounts
were accepted unanimously.
Brian Savage asked whether we

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were operating a charily and was it
possible that Apple2000 would
meet the criteria to be classed as a
charity. Ewen said that this had
been considered on a previous
occasion but that the Committee
would look into the matter again.
June Savage asked a question
regarding the membership
database.

6. Election of Officers

Norah Arnold said that twelve

members were represented by

proxy, four in the name of Ewen

Wannop and eight in the name of

Norah Arnold.

One nomination had been received

for Chairman in the name of Ewen

Wannop.

One nomination had been received

for Secretary in the name of Norah

Arnold.

One nomination had been received

for Treasurer in the name of Irene

Flaxman.

Nominations for Committee

Members had been received In the

names of John Lee. John Arnold,

and Elizabeth Littlcwood.

Peter Kemp proposed that all
the nominations be accepted and
this was seconded by Colin
Holgate. The proposal was
accepted unanimously.

Bryn Jones said that he would
like to propose a vote of thanks to
the Committee and others who had
helped, for all they had done in the
past year.

7- Any Other Business

Irene Flaxman said that the
Committee were always looking for
people to help as 'experts' for the
Hotline. She asked that any
member who felt that they had a
particular expertise in an area or in
an application would volunteer to
answer queries that came into the
Hotline.

Elizabeth Littlewood pointed out
that she had extended her role to
cover Macintosh reviews as well as
Apple II reviews. Elizabeth
extended an invitation to members
to contribute to the magazine.

The meeting closed at 12.15 p.m.

The Committee would like to
thank ail members who attended
the AGM or who participated by
sending in their proxy.

Software Registration
— Is It W orth It ?

A list of experienc es
By Mike Dawson

Over the past years an argument
has raged over the merils of regis-
tration of software. I felt that for
the price of a stamp it was worth
the effort as the potential gain
should be significant given the
amount of upgrades flying
around. In the following para-
graphs I shall relate my experi-
ences with some of the software I
have bought and registered over
the past couple of years.

I would like to state that I have
no commercial connection or in-
terest in any of the following prod-
ucts. They are mentioned only
because I have bought, used and
registered them.

Nisus

(Published by Paragon Concepts

Inc. California. USA.)

Word processor

I have had this programme
about 6 months and was there-
fore not expecting an upgrade so
soon. Out of the blue I received a
single floppy disc and a very brief
note explaining the contents of
the disc. All documentation re-
garding the upgrade and the
method of undertaking the up-
grade were contained in Nisus
documents. Paragon concepts
does not have a distributor in this
country as such and therefore the
upgrade came from a company
called MacSoft which through
whom Nisus was registered in this
country. This upgrade was what I
call a maintenance update. A se-
ries of fixes and minor improve-
ments. This upgrade was both
unsolicited and most important,
free.

The method of updating the
Wordproccssor was a novel one
which is worth relating. A full

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working copy was not included on
the disc but an updating pro-
gramme with data files. Instruc-
tions given in the text files was
clear and covered two versions of
Nisus and told you how to update
the particular version of Nisus
used. The update programme
uses the data to directly modify
the Nisus files held on the hard
disc. This means that Paragon
concepts do not have to distribute
full working copies thus saving
discs and ensuring only the regis-
tered user in possession of the
wordproccssor can benefit from
the upgrade.

Redux

(Published by Microseeds of

Florida, USA.)
Hard Disk Backup Programme

Since buying and using Redux
to backup my internal hard disc
there has been one maintenance
upgrade. This was notified by let-
ter from the States giving three
options for obtaining the upgrade.
These were to either :

(1) Return the original Redux
Floppy disc for a free update by
return of post

(21 Dial up the States to their
own bulletin board twice. Once to
log on to the board and ask for
access authorisation and the sec-
ond to go in and download the new
version. Not very feasible from
England especially as I only had a
1200 baud modem at the time.

(3) To send Microseeds the en-
closed form and 10 US dollars to
receive a new master disc. This
fortunately coincided with a busi-
ness trip to the USA I was there-
fore able to send in a money order
purchased from the US post of-
fice. When I returned home some

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seven weeks later the new version
was waiting for me. Luckily the
Customs and Excise did not pick
up on it and so that was the limit
of my costs. The documentation of
the upgrade consisted of some
short notes on a piece of paper
and not in a text file on the disc.
These notes were brief befitting a
maintenance upgrade. Since then
I have received a newsletter from
Microseeds which consisted of a
folded A3 size sheet of paper con-
taining tips on how to use
Microseeds products as well as a
sales pitch for their new commer-
cial virus detection programme.

DiskExpress™ & MultiDisk™
(Published by Alsoft Inc..
Texas, USA)
Hard Disk Optimization / Partitioning
Even whilst I was writing this
article the postman was bringing
more offers of software updates.
This one has proved to be the first
of the new System 7.0 upgrades.
This upgrade was the first one I've
received that actually has a cost
attached to it. I suspect that with
some of the much vaunted new
facilities of System 7.0 that up-
grades will become the new fash-
ion. The cost of this upgrade to is
$10 per item (DiskKxpress™ &
MultiDisk™) plus $4 handling
and $10 post and packing. There
is an additional cost of $10 for
overseas posting (I.e. over the
pond) . This makes a grand lotal of
US $44 for the upgrade of both
pieces of software. I have sent off
for this upgrade as I intend to
upgrade to System 7 (I'm a glutton
for punishment). However at the
time of writing I had not received
my upgrade (2 to 4 week delivery)
so I cannot report just how differ-
ent it is from the version currently
on sale. The upgrade oITer also
includes a 'free* US $10 voucher
against future upgrades. I may be
a cynic but perhaps there will
prove to be further revisions nec-
essary in the stormy waters ahead
in System 7.0.

As a consolation to those people
who have bought either or both
packages recently Alsoft will up-
grade your DiskExpress™ or
MultiDisk™ for free upon proof of
purchase and sale date as long as
you bought it after April 1st 1991.

June 1991

lie Fart 01 ttie
Not Part of the Problem.

£verv time you toss an empty toner cartridge from your laser
printer or PC copier into the bin, you are contributing to the
monumental problem of plastic waste. How much plastic waste?
30 million toner cartridges were sold last year alone . . . creating
enough plastic waste to stretch halfway around the world.

There is a solution. We're Laser Recharge, and we specialise in
a process that reuses toner cartridges - we call it "rechargine".
Empty toner cartridges are totally disassembled, cleaned and refilled
witn our qualily toner. Our high-tech process is so good that in
every category: print quality, blacker solids and pnnt consistency,
Laser Recharge s cartridges outperform original cartridges.

Recharged toner cartridges are kind to the environment ... and
your pocket, generally costing 50% less than original cartridges.
Improved quality, environmentally sound, and economical,
recharging is just good business sense.

You have a choice. Be part of the solution. Call (0379) 650687
today for further information and for the dealer nearest you.

LASER RECHARGE LIMITED

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Diss, Norfolk IP21 4EY

Tel: (0379) 650667 fax: 10379) 650688

Wingz
(Published by Informix)
Spreadsheet
Shortly alter purchasing Wingz
and registering I read in MacUser
of a new release to version 1 . 1 (I
had bought version 1.0). The arti-
cle said that the upgrade would be
available 'at Christmas' (1989). So
1 thought 1 would wait until after
the Christmas Holidays before
trying to pester Informix into giv-
ing me the upgrade. However I
reckoned not without the efficiency
of their organisation as on Christ-
mas Eve the Royal Mail dropped a
package onto my door mat. This
was the upgrade in four discs, two
for the Mac II and two for the rest of
the Mac range. Tills had come Just
because I was a registered user
and not because I prompted them
at all. The story does not end there
however. In February of this year
a mystery package dropped onto
my doormat. Mystified I opened it
hoping that I had not told too
many Irish J okes recently only to
find another Wingz upgrade. The
accompanying letter explained
was a minor revision which takes
Wingz to version 1.1a. This up-
grade was free just like the earlier

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one. I give full marks to Informix
on their user support.

Mission Starlight & Skyshadow

(Published by Cossidy & Greene)
Arcade Games
I have two games by these mas-
ters of the colour Mac II games,
namely Mission Starlight and Sky
Shadow. Surprisingly both these
games had registration cards
which I duly sent off (all the way to
the States) but I have not been
notified of any upgrades so I sus-
pect that none are required.
However if the lads at Cassidy &
Greene are reading this then I
would like you to know that Ap-
ple's MacroMaker utility makes
both of your games lock up !.

Super Music Studio

(Published by Bogas Productions)

Music Authoring and Flaying

Programme

Since I bought and registered

this excellent music programme I

have received a couple of sales

pitches for their add on music

song discs and an introductory

offer of a Midi sequencer pro-

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gramme which I did not take up.
No upgrade though and as the
programme operates faultlessly I
don't expect one until the whole
programme is overhauled. How-
ever as I have received these offers
it does demonstrate that the pub-
lisher is taking notice of their UK
customers.

I do have other hardware /soft-
ware which I have registered but I
either have had these a short time
and an upgrade is not out or I have
not heard anything at all. This
does not mean of course that they
have forgotten me. It could be that
a revision or upgrade is not avail-
able yet.

Conclusion
I would whole heartedly recom-
mend registration of both soft-
ware and hardware. At worse all
you can lose is the cost of a post-
age stamp and al best gain some
free upgrades on maintenance
revisions and a cheaper upgrade
on full featured rewritten ver-
sions. It would seem that the soft-
ware houses are getting their act
together and giving the support
that wc users pay for in high
prices. *

M B

Hl69

M3 CD-ROM set

PD software for the Mac

A review of one of th e CD-ROMs
available for Public D omain addicts
by Peter Kemp

Ten years ago I bought ray first
disk drive. Attached to my
Apple II it gave me 128K of
space on a 5.25 diskette (DOS
3.3 had just come out). Two
and a half years ago, when I
moved to a Mac Plus, I got
800K on a 3.5 inch floppy. An
external Qisk gave me a
staggering 20Mb and I thought
I was set for life.

About three months ago I
bought an Apple CD-ROM
drive as I wanted to explore the
increasing amount of material
available in this format. Just
over a month ago 1 ordered a
two CD-ROM set from Mac's
Place in the US (details at the
end of the article). It set me
back $88 or £82, allowing for
air mail, insurance. VAT and
import duty. In the last four
weeks. I've been taking a look
through it.

The statistics arc staggering.
Between them the two discs
contain over 1.1Gb. That's
right - over a thousand
megabytes of public domain
shareware. freeware,

beerware. smileware.

postcardware and who-
knows-what-ware for the
Macintosh.

The first disk (around 19,000
Tiles totalling 650Mb)
contains, among other folders:

Art -5.406 files (159Mb)

Art Utilities - 288 file

(6.5Mb)

Documentation - 530

files(16Mb)

Education- 614 files (12Mb)

Entertainment - 1595 files

(54Mb)

Mac II - 80 files (3Mb)

System Folder Additions -

380 files (17Mb)

Utilities - 1088 files (18Mb)

Word Processing

Applications - 253 files

(8Mb)

The disk itself is organised as
one huge IIFS volume and
navigating it can be tricky. (I
sometimes get very frustrated
trying to find my way back to a
favourite application or
picture! The compilers have
done their best to categorise
material into subjects, but it's
still a bit of a nightmare.)

I strongly suggest using
MultiFinder when opening
applications, as this avoids the
need to re-read the volume
from the CD drive when
returning to the desktop. (CD
drives aren't renowned for
their speed and on this
volume, it can take 10/15
seconds.)

The second disk (around
9,000 files) is mainly devoted
to HyperCard stacks. They
cover everything from several
translations of the Bible (with
navigators) through to an
Esperanto tutor, by way of a
guided tour of Boston. A
HyperCard interface is
provided, which takes the user
down through the myriad of
levels of folders down to the
applications themselves.

"Never mind the quantity -
what about the quality?". As
you might expect, it's variable.
Not surprisingly, there are few

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"professional" applications,
although Boomerang 2.0 and
Easy Envelopes Plus 2.02 are
there, together with over 95
LaserWriter fonts, well over
100 ImageWriter fonts and
500Kb of SCSI tools. The sheer
volume and range of art work is
quite staggering and I'm now
able to have all the Technical
Notes (up to June 1990)
online. The NASA picture of Ed
Aldrin is almost worth the
price of admission by itself and
I defy anyone not to find at
least one CDEV or IN1T (out of
over 300) to drop into their
system folder .

On the down side, there is
some rubbish - of course there
is. I've found one corrupt file
(i.e. it didn't copy using Finder)
and one or two GIF files which
don't unpack properly. but
otherwise no problems. These
failures apart, the editors have
done a valiant job in trying to
ensure everything works, but
much of the stuff written in the
pre-HFS days doesn't take very
kindly to more modern
machines. Even some of the
more recent stuff hasn't used
the information available from
SysEnvirons to check for a
maths co-processor. 32 bit
Quickdraw, keyboard type and
so forth. But I'm quibbling -
even 50Mb of rubbish is still
less than 5% of the total
available!

There is something for
everyone in this set - and at the
asking price, it's a steal. If
you've got a CD-ROM player
then log on to CompuServe and
order it now. You certainly
can't borrow my disks, since
I'll be using them for a long
time to come, but one day I'll
lend them to Ewen to pull off
some of the items for TABBS.
You'll have to wait, though. 4

[Available from: Mac's Place i

i (0101)206-883-8312 (Voice)

(0101)206-881-3090 (Fax) ,

76635.660 (CompuServe - |

^ handy to check stock position.^

June 1991

StoryEditor and
Over Matter

E wen Wannop reviews two exten sions
for Xpress 3.0 from The Last Word

Apple2000 was offered for review
these two extensions for Xpress 3.0 by
the publishers Last Word. Thy do work,
sort of, but before you consider buying
them, check out my conclusions at the
end Of this article.

The Macintosh is unique amongst
computers in having a toolbox of basic
utilities that are available to the pro-
grammer. A good programmer will use
these toolbox routines to construct
simple and elegant programs. One of
the most powerful tools available is the
TextEdit tool. This handles all the basic
tasks of displaying, scrolling and
handling all edit commands within a
TextEdit record. To make an Editing
window all that Is needed is to create a
window with a TextEdit control. Dy
placing the target text into this control
as a TextEdit record you can create a
mini word processor very easily.

QuarkXPress 3.0 also has a power-
ful feature that allows extensions in its
boot folder to be automatically loaded
as Xpress is started up. There are
some extensions or rather 'Xtcnsions*
provided with Xpress and others are
available as Public Domain or
Shareware. StoryEditor and
Overmatter are two extensions that
are automatically Installed as Xpress
is started up. They are individually
numbered with the serial number of
your copy of Xpress so they will only
work with that copy ofXpress. It is easy
to install the extensions, just drag

them into the Xpress folder.

Both the extensions have the same
format, when opened they display a
standard window which can be sized
and moved as needed (see Figure 1 and
2). The text is displayed In a single font
which can be changed if required. It is
noted in the press pack that StoryEditor
In Its final version (we only had a Beta
one) will support all typographical at-
tributes and Style Sheets. I was unable
to see these working or how many
attributes would be supported in the
final version.

Overmatter

When you have placed more text
than can be shown into a text box in
Xpress. a marker at the bottom right
shows that you have extra undlsplayed
text. Opening Overmatter shows you
thi s overflow text and allows you to edit
It. When you close the OverMatter
window it will paste this text back into
the current open text record. As this
text Is overflow, it creates pages as
needed to place the text! I expected it to
simply leave it as overflow material
and was confused at first as to where
all the overflow text had gone.

StoryEditor

With a story spanning many pages,
and with text columns possibly inter-
woven with other stories, it is not easy
lo see and edit the whole story.
StoryEditor allows you to see the whole

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of a single story in one window and
scroll from top to bottom. Page breaks
are shown where they occur. Closing
the window pastes the edited story
back lo the original text record. This is
sim liar to the Editor in PageMaker 4 .0.

Common Feature*

You can choose the font and display
size of the text in the OverMaller or
StoryEditor window. Standard text
attributes are displayed but not the
fonts they were originally created in.

Whether this will be changed in the
final version of the StoryEditor mod ule
Is a matter for conjecture.

The numberoflines and words in the
story is displayed at the foot of the
window. This is helpful in keeping
track of the text record.

You can edit, cut and paste and also
apply standard keyboard shortcuts for
text styles. The Xpress style menu is
dimmed and so cannot be selected
directly.

Normally invisible commands are
displayed. This Is helpful in showing
line and page ends in a window which
is ol course probably not the same size
as you may have been working with.

Bugs

In the press pack It mentions that
the version of OverMatter wc received
was the final version. However It also
mentionsln the trouble shooUnggulde
at the back of the manual that the
system might crash if a text boy or
chain of text boxes contains anchoret I
text or picture boxes. They will otter i
free upgrade to owners when the
problem is solved. I managed to crash
OverMatter frequently with nothing
more than a simple story in the box!

Conclusions

The StoryEditor extension works af-
ter a fashion.

TheOverMatterextensionworks, but

with constant crashing and the inser-
tion of pages when you least expect it.
is worse man useless.

If StoryEditor was issued as
Shareware. I would pay $15 for the
privilege of using it. However at a price
of £295, even with a copy of the trou-
bled OverMatter included. I can only
wonder what on earth The Last Word
are up to. Perhaps their company name
tells all.

Prices:

Overmatter £95

StoryEditor £295 (includes a copy

of OverMatter)

The Last Word

Kiln House

210 New Kings Road

Fulham

I-ondon

SW6 4NZ

Tel: 071 736 7656

Fax: 071 731 7655

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Twenty-five Tips for Excel 2.2 Users

By Geoff Wood

Introduction

These notes are not Intended (or
novices bul for people who have
some experience of using Excel.
Some of the tips are covered in the
manual but many people do not
read the manual and those who do
read it can't remember all they
have read. Other tips are based on
my experience or on reading
various books and articles on
Excel

1. Suppressing the Status Bar

Normally, Excel displays the
Status bar across the bottom of Ihe
screen, displaying the word Ready
or Enter or a brief explanation of a
Command. If you don't need Ih is
information, you can suppress the
Status bar by using the Workspace
command in the Options menu.
The screen then displays another
row or two of your worksheet.

2. Using the Zoom Box

After you use the Zoom box (in the
top right corner of the window) to
enlarge a window to fill the screen,
the Excel program does not record
this fact when you save the file. So
when you open the file again, the
window is tli e same size as it was
before you enlarged it with the
Zoom box. If you want your
worksheet to fill the screen when
you open the file, you must use the
Size box (in the bottom right corner
of the window) to adjust the size of
the window before saving the file.

3. Opening several files from
one command

With older versions of Excel, if you
wanted to open several illes from
one command, you had to do it in
Finder or MultlFinder. Excel 2.2
offers the Save Workspace
command in the Ftfe menu which
allows you to save several files
under a collective file name (default
name Resume). Workspace files
remember not only the size and

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position of the windows you saved
but also such features as the
preferred chart type, the global
calculations setting, the Full or
Short menus setting, the Info
window settings and the options in
the Options Workspace command.

4, Selecting a block of cells

You can select a block of cells by
dragging from the active cell in any
corner of the block to the cell in the
corner diagonally opposite. A
quicker, easier way is to select the
cell in one corner, hold down the
shift key. then select the cell in the
opposite corner. This method is
especially useful when the
opposite corner is not already
displayed in the window; you can
click in the scroll bars or arrows to
bring It into view.

If you know the coordinates of
the cell diagonally opposite the
active cell, you can use the Goto
command in the Formula menu (or
Command-G). Enter the cell
coordinates in the Goto dialog box.
hold down the Shift key. then click
on the OK button.

If bottom right hand corner of
the block is the last cell of the
worksheet, you can first select the
upper left cell of the block, hold
down the shift key. then use the
Select Special command in the
Formula menu to select the last
cell.

You can also select a block of
cells without using the mouse.
Just hold down the shift key and
use the appropriate arrow keys to
enlarge or reduce the size of the
block.

As you select a blockof cells, the
numbers of rows and columns you
have selected are displayed at the
left of the Formula Bar until you
release the mouse button or shift
key.

Command-Spacebar selects
the current column. Shift-
Spacebar selects the current row.

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Having selected a column or row,
you can extend the selection to
include adjacent columns or rows
by holding down the shift key and
using the appropriate arrow key.

Command-Option-* selects the
whole of the current data block,
i.e., a block of cells bordered by a
blank row and a blank column.
This can be useful for formatting.

5. Selecting non-contiguous
cells

You can select two or more cells
that do not touch one another by
holding down the Command key
before clicking on the second and
subsequent cells or before
dragging over blocks of cells.
I Iowever. if you select a cell or block
that you did not really want to
include in the multiple selection,
there is no way to de-sclcct the
unwanted cells. You must start the
multiple selection process again
from the beginning.

Multiple selections are very
useful for formatting. For example,
if you want to shade alternate rows
of a worksheet, you can select
alternate rows with the Command
key held down, then format all of
them at the same time with the
Format Border command.

6. Moving a range of selected
cells

Once you have selected a block or
multiple range of cells, you can
move the entire range across the
worksheet by holding down the
Command key and pressing the
Tab key. You can move the
selection down the worksheet by
holding down the Command key
and pressing the Return key. To
move the range to the left or
upwards, hold down both the Shift
and the Command keys before
using the Tab or Return keys.
This technique is especially useful
for editing successive rows or
columns in a table of cells. You can

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select and edit one row or column,
then move the selection to the next
row or column without having to
use the mouse.

7. Moving within a range of
selected cells

After selecting a block of cells or a
multiple range of cells, you can
move from one cell to another by
using the Tab key. or the Enter or
Return key. Excel remembers the
sequence in which you selected the
cells and /or blocks and moves
from one cell to the, next in the same
sequence. To move in reverse
sequence, hold down the Shift key
before pressing the Tab. Enter or
Return key.

8. Defining names for
constants

Most Excel users who have
progressed beyond the novice
stage know that you can assign a
name to a cell or a block or a
multiple range of cells, then use
that name in formulas or with the
Goto command. But many are not
aware that you can assign a name
to a value which need not appear in
a cell. For example, you could put
the name VatRate in the Name Held
of the Define Name command
dialog box then type 15% in the
Refers To field. You could then use
the name VatRate in formulas.

9. Applying names

When
developing a
worksheet, you
may prefer to
use cell

references in
formulas rather
than names
until you are
satisfied that
the design of the
worksheet is
correct. If you
then decide to
assign names to
some of the
cells, the Apply
Names
command can
be used to
automatically
replace the cell
references in
formulas with
the names.

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10. Pasting names

In the Paste Names command
there is I he Paste List option which
creates a list of all the Names in
your worksheet and the cells
assigned to each name . Of course,
you can use the Define Names
command or the Goto command to
identify the cells assigned to each
Name but the Paste List command
provides a record on the worksheet
itself.

11. Changing formulas to values

To convert all or part of a formula
into a value, select the cell
references in the Formula Bar,
then use the Calculate Now
command in the Options menu. To
convert formulas in several cells
into values, select the cells and use
the Copy command, then, with the
cells stul selected, use the Paste
Special command and choose the

Values option.

12. Using number formats

Number formats such as O which
rounds to the nearest integer and
0.00 which rounds to two decimal
places affect only the display;
calculations are based on the
underlying number, so the
displayed answers may appear to
be incorrect. To ensure that the
answers correspond to the
displayed numbers you may need
to use the ROUND function.

12. Formatting numbers
automatically

If you type a £ sign at the start of a
number before entering it into a
cell, lixcel assumes that you want
the number to be displayed with
the standard format for British
currency, if you type a decimal
point with or without the number
of pence. Excel displays the pence
as well as the pounds. If you
include commas to distinguish the
thousands and millions. Excel
uses the corresponding standard
format.

If you type a % sign at the end of
a number. Excel displays It with
the percent sign and divides the
number by 100 for calculation
purposes. Similarly. Excel
recognises dates and times if they
are typed In one of the standard
formats such as 9/ 1/91 and 10:45
am.

13. Developing your own
number formats

You can format numbers almost
any way you like. For example.
fl.ffffO "mm" displays mm after the
number and inserts commas if
necessary. The # sign tells Excel
not to display leading zeros, fl'he
format 0.000 would display the
number 999 as 0.999.)
Excel number formats consist of
up to fou r parts separated by semi-
colons. The semi-colons

Excel Standard Formats

Form,-;'

Positive

Zero

Negative

Keyboard

General

12345.6789

-12345 6789

3e-0pt-~

12346

0.00

12.345 68

0.00

-12.345.G0

se-opt-!

#,# #0

12,346

-12.346

*,#»Q.oo

12.345.68

0.00

12.345 68

t#,##n ;ff.#,##n)

£17 346

£0

(£12.346)

£#,*#0 ;[Red]f£*,#*0)

CI 2.346

€0

(£12.346)

E^.tftfrj.ou ;(£*,**U.UU)

£12.345 ?3

C0.00

(£12.345.68)

3S-0pt-fc or $

f#,##o.no ;[Rpri]if.A\##n.nni

€12.345 68

€0 00

(£12.345.68)

1234568%

-1234568%

&-0pt-%

0.00%

1234 007 89%

0.00%

-1234 5G7.09%

o.ooF-'nn

1 23E+04

O-OOE-t-00

-1.23E+04

tt-flpt- A

d/m/y

19/10/37

1/1/04

-19710/37

d-mmm-yy

19-OcI-37

1-Jan-04

-19-Oct-37

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d-mmrn

19-Oci

1-Jan

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mmm-yy

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Jan 04

Oct 37

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4.17 PM

12.00 AM

-4:17 PM

86-Opt-<S>

h:rnm:ss flM/PM

4:17:37 PM

12:00:00 AM

-4:17:37 PM

h:mm

16:17

h:mm:ss

16 17.37

0.00:00

-16.17.37

d/m/y h:mm

19/10/37 16:17

1/1 .'04 00

-19/10/37 16:17

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£#.##0.00" Credir;£#.##0.00" Debit" :"NiT:<
promptly."

overdue, please pay

Entry

Display

1234.56

£1.234.56 Credit

-1234.56

£1.234.50 Debit

Nil

Three months

Three months overdue, please pay

distinguish the positive, negative.
zero and text formats. The latter
must Include the @ symbol. Thus
the following format would display
numbers as shown in the box
above.

If you don't define a format after
a semi-colon. Excel hides the
number from view, Thus
0.00:(0.00); displays positive and
negative numbers but hides zeros
from view. You can suppress all the
zeros In a worksheet with the
Display command in the Options
menu. If you want to hide some but
not all zeros you can do it with
special formats.

You can cause consternation by
formatting cells in a colleague's
worksheet with the special format
;;; which hides all numbers and
text from view but does not affect
the calculations based on the
hidden numbers. To restore the
display, simply reformat the cells
with the original format.

14. Formatting with keyboard
shortcuts

Some of Excel's standard formats
can be assigned from the keyboard
rather than from the Format
menu. For example. Command-
Option-! assigns the 0.00 format
and Command -Option-& assigns
the d-mmm-yy format. (See the
diagram for a list of standard
formats and shortcuts.)

You can also assign borders
from the keyboard. Command-
Qplion-Arrow puts a border at the
top, bottom, right or left of the cell
depending on which of the four
arrow keys you use. Command-
Option-Zeroputs an outline border
round the selected cells. (Why did
Microsoft use Zero rather than O
for Outline?) The Command-
Option-Arrow keys also toggle to
erase an existing border but the
Command -Option-Zero
combination does not erase an
outline border.

You can also format or dc-
format characters in Bold. Italic.

Strikcthrough. Underline. Outline
or Shadow by using Shift -
Command-D. I. -. U. D orW.

Unfortunately, there are no
keyboard shortcuts for formatting
alignment (general, left, centre,
right and fill), nor for cell
protection. But if you have already
specified an alignment or cell
protection in one or more cells, you
can use the Repeat command in
the Edit menu (or Command- Y) to
repeat the alignment or cell
protection in other cells.

Alternatively, you can create a
short macro for formatting
alignment, protection, etc and use
keyboard shortcuts such as
Command-Option-C for Centre,
etc. If you rename the macro sheet
as Excel Startup and put it in your
System Folder, it will be opened
automatically whenever you start
up Excel.

15. Adjusting column widths
and row heights

You can adj ust the width of several
columns simultaneously by
selecting them (using the
Command key if they are not
adjacent columns) then dragging
the right hand edge of any of the
column headers. As you drag, the
width of that column in displayed
in the cell reference box at the left
hnnd side of the formula bar so you
can specify a precise number of
characters. Of course, you could
use the Column Width command
in the Format menu but the
dragging method lets you to see the
new width as you drag.
Similarly, the height of several
rows can be adjusted by selecting
them and then dragging the
bottom of one of the row headers.
Again, the row height (in points) is
shown in the cell reference box at
the left hand side of the Formula
Bar.

16. Checking column widths
and row heights

The quickest way to check the

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width of a column is to place the
pointer over the right hand edge of
the column header and hold down
the mouse button. The width is
then displayed in the cell reference
box at the left hand edge of the
Formula Bar. Of course, you could
use the Column Width command
in the Format menu to display the
number of characters but this
method takes longer.
Similarly, you can check the height
of a row by placing the pointer over
the bottom edge of the row header
and holding down the mouse
button to display the row height in
the cell reference box at the lell
hand edge of the Formula Bar.
Again, this is quicker than using
the Row Height command.

17. Hiding columns and rows

You can hide a column or row from
view by specifying a width or height
of zero with the Column Width or
Row Height commands in the
Format menu or by dragging the
left hand edge of the column
header or bottom edge of the row
header until the number zero is
displayed in the cell reference box
at the left hand side of the Formula
Bar.

To re-display a hidden column,
place the pointer in the head of the
column that is just to the right of
the hidden column, then drag to
the right. To re-display a hidden
row, place the pointer In the head of
the row immediately below the
hidden row, then drag down. To re-
display several hidden columns or
rows, select the columns on each
side of the hidden columns or the
rows above and below the hidden
rows then use the Column Width or
Row Height commands to assign a
width or height greater than zero.

18. Changing fonts

You can change the standard font
for a worksheet with the Standard
Font command in the Options
menu but if you format or have
already formatted some cells with
the Font command in the Format
menu, these cell formats override
the Standard Font.

The default font for a new
worksheet in Excel is Geneva 10
point but you can't change the
program to make new worksheets
start up with a font of your choice.
Geneva is fine for the Image Writer
but not so good for LaserWriters
which automatically substitute

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Helvetica for Geneva unless you
specify otherwise. If you use a
LaserWriter or a HP DeskWriter
you may prefer to change the
standard font of each new
worksheet to Helvetica which
displays more characters across
the width of the screen than
Geneva. Better still, you could
write a short macro to open a new
worksheet and set the standard
font to Helvetica. Then add that
macro to the Excel Startup file
recommended in tip 14.

The row numbers and column
letters are always shown in the
standard font (in bold).

19. Displaying formulas

You can use the Display command
in the Options menu to display
formulas but a quicker way is to
use the keyboard shortcut,
Command-'. Excel automatically
doubles the width of every column
when it displays formulas but you
may have to widen some of the
columns to display the full
formula.

20. Entering pounds and pence
figures

If you need to enter pounds and
pence figures in many cells you can
use the Workspace command in
the Options menu to specify 2
decimals in the Fixed Decimal
option. Then, when you enter
numbers, you don't need to type a
decimal point between the pounds
and the pence.

21. Cut, Copy and Paste in the
Formula Bar

You can use the Cut. Copy. Paste
and Clear commands to edit
entries in the formula bar. Thus
you can cut or copy cell references
from a formula in one cell and
paste them into a formula in
another cell.

After cutting or copying from

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the Formula Bar. you must press
Enter or Return (or click on the tick
or the cross) before attempting to
paste the cut or copied entries into
another cell. If you click on another
cell (or use the arrow keys to move
to another cell) before doing this.
the characters you have selected
for cutting or copying will be
replaced by the coordinates of the
new active cell.

Normally, when you cut or copy
a cell and paste into another cell.
Excel changes any cell references
on a relative basis (unless they are
absolute references denoted by $
signs). However, if you cut or copy
the contents of the Formula Bar,
then press Enter and paste them
into another cell, the original cell
references are retained.

22. Using the Paste Special

command

The Paste Special command in the
Edit menu works only with the
Copy command, not with the Cut
command. It enables you to paste
only the formulas (without
formats) or only the values or the
formats or notes.
It also enables you to add or
subtract the contents of the
incoming cell(s) to or from the
contents of the recipient cell or to
multiply or divide the contents of
the recipient cells by the contents
of the incoming cells. There is an
option to skip blank cells to avoid
copying the contents of blank cells
into cells already containing
entries.

23. Transposing columns and
rows

You may put hours of work into
designing a worksheet and then
realise that it would have been
better the other way round. The
Paste Special command offers a
Transpose option which puts the
contents of the copied columns
into the rows of the recipient range.
It transposes all cell references
(whether relative or absolute) on a
relative basis but Named cells in
the copied cells remain unchanged
so any formulas in the pasted area
containing names still refer to the
original cells.

24. Fill Up and Pill Left

The Fill Down and Fill Right
commands are very useful but
many people do not realise that if
you hold down the Shift key before

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selecting the command, the Edit
menu displays Fill Up and Fill Left.
You can use Command- D and
Command R for Fill Down and Fill
Right, but there are no keyboard
shortcuts for Fill Up and Fill Left.

25. Using the Series command

With other spreadsheet
programs it can be quite a chore to
type a series of dates, such as the
names of successive months or
week endings, across the tops of
the columns or in the first column
of the rows. With Excel, it's easy.
You Just type the first date in the
first cell, format it the way you want
(for example, mmmm for the full
name of the month) then choose
the Series command in the Data
menu.

The dialog box asks you to
specify whether you want to go
across the columns or down the
rows (though if you have already
selected a row or a column (or part
row or column) it defaults to the
appropriate option. You can also
specify the Date Unit — Day.
Weekday. Month or Year — and a
step value or a stop value.

The Series command is not
limited to inserting dates. You can
start with a number and create a
Linear series.where the step value
is added successively to each cell.
or a Growth series, where each
successive cell is multiplied by the
step value. #

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Mac 9

CClock

CClock is a nifty little program
which displays a digital or analog
clock in a window on the Mac. It is
MulUflnder compatible so it can be
run in the background while you
work on other programs. It can be
resized and repositioned anywhere
on the Mac Desktop and will
remember where you put it every
time it is run. For multiple monitor
Mac's you can place CClock in any
monitor display. CClock will allow
you to set up to 50 alarms for any
lime up to the year 2079. CClock
also allows you to select a Chime to
sound on the Hour and/or Half-
hour. The sounds are chosen from
among the 'snd ' resources in your
System file. Again. CClock
remembers which sounds you
selected. You can select the Font to
be used for the display. You can
also launch other applications
from CClock and create a menu of
applications to be launched at any
time under Multifinder.
New Features

•Easier editing of alarm times now
allowed in dialog boxes.
•The user can now assign
command key equivalents to
applications in the Launch Menu.
•A new analog clock display option
has been added.

Solitaire. 1.1

Written by Steve Boyd of Universal
Imaging Corp.. 502 Brandywine
Parkway. West Chester. PA 19380.
This is Just the program for you if
you like to play cards. It has six
versions of Solitaire and has great
colour for those people who are
lucky enough have colour
machines. Solitaire is freeware
with some restrictions.

Fllplt

Written by Kevin Clark of 8049

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Janes #E, Woodridge, IL 60517
This is a good board game having
several levels. It is very easy to
learn and will give you a hard game
at the advanced level.

Duck Hunt

A game for those who have a love-
hate relationship with their
computer games. Don't let it send
you crazy . (Picture on facing page.)

Loodle 4.0.3

This is a shareware utility for
making labels for 3.5 inch Mac
disks. It is designed to print labels
on standard sized label forms such
as those used by the LaserWriter
and other sheet feeders. Complete
instructions for use are available in
HELP under the OFIIOWS menu.
Basically all you do is pop the disk
into the slot and LoodJe will make
up the labels.

TrueType™ Information stack

See page 45 of April's issue of
Apple2000 for more details of this
stack from Apple Computer Inc.

BootMan

Written by Bill Steinberg.
CompuServe 76703,1027.
This program will do several
things. The most useful and
important thing Bootman will do is
to allow the average Macintosh
user to change the heap space of
the System. If you are not sure
what that means then you need to
read more before you do it! The
program has good on-line
documentation that explains
everything clearly and will
certainly help if you are not sure
what you are up to. Free with
restrictions.

RoloDA 4.0+

Rolodesk DA is by Tim Endres of

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8840 Main Street, Whilinore Lake.
MI 48189.

Rolo DA is a desk accessory. It will
allowyou to have a quick rolodex of
such items as names and
addresses. Rolodesk DA is a very
simple desk accessory designed to
give you the features found in the
famous Rolodex® product. A
simple, fast access to brief cards of
textual information. In the
Rolodesk DA. these, cards arc
presented to you in the DA's
window, one card at a time.
RolodeskDA provides functionsfor
adding and deleting cards, as well
as searching cards for text. It is also
fully Integrated with the Macintosh
environment, allowing you to move
information to and from the cards
and other Macintosh applications.
You basically have the following
functionality on each card in the
Rolodesk.

•Full Macintosh Cut/Copy/Paste
functionality on t he text in both the
card and find fields.
•Search facility for any text string.
Case sensitive and non-case
sensitive searches provided.
•Printing of card.
•Copy of card text to and from the
clipboard and other applications.
•Setting of text font and size in the
card on a file by file basis.
•Setting of card size on a file by file
basis.

The last two features allow you to
customize each Rolodesk file
according to the data contained
within.

Reader 1.04

Reader is written by Kevin
Parichan

This program will allow you to read
different file formats even if you do
not have have the parent
application. Reader will read
MacPaint, PICT, Text and two
kinds of sound formats. More
formats are expected.

Mug Shot Lite™

Written by James K. Miles. MI
Concepts. PO Box 8822. Kent wood
MI. 49508. MugShot will take a
snapshot of all the files and version
numbers of what is In your System
Folder. Some people's system
folders become so large that they
lose track of what Is in them. Mug
Shot is freeware with some
restrictions.

June 1991

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IMAUUBABfiHfiiaU

IDs 423 Art Disk 4 1ED1

Name

| Q Bird.EPSF
Q Brush.EPSF

| Q Bug.EPSF
D Bus.EPSf
D Butterfly 1 EPSF
D Butterfly 2.EPSF

| D Butterfly 3.EPSF
D Butterfly 4.EPSF
D Butterfly 5.EPSF

1 D CD. EPSF
D Christmas Bells
Q Christmas Reef
D Closed padlock .EPSF

□ Decorative Frame 1
D Decorative Frame 2
Q Decorative Frame 3

□ Diskette.EPSF
<3i Notice to Users
D Santa 1
D Santa 2
Santa 3

□ Santa 4

Disk 426 Intro to System 7

This disk contains HyperCard
stacks. The first stack is a complete
introduction to System 7 written by
Apple Computer. The other two
stacks are on the subject of vi-
ruses.

^^•^^■:■y■^^^:■:^•^^^l-^^:^:■^:^■^^^•^•^^^^^^'""^"^

IDI System 7 In =ED=

2 items 720K in disk 65K ■

Introduction to System 7

Virus Info Stacks

t: '" E a

!:!:

IDI 424 Art Disk 5 EEDi

Name

D Butterfly 4.art

D Car

D Cat

D Eagle 1 .EPSF

D Eagle 2.EPSF

D Elk Head .EPSF

D Fat pencil.EPSF

□ Home EPSF

D Japanese Menu
<& Notice to Users
D Oriental Bird Motif
D Ornament 2
Q Ornament 3
D Ornament 4

□ Ornament 5
D Ornament 6
Ornament 7

D Paperclip. EPSF

D PenH.EPSF

D Pushpin.EPSF

D Ribbon

D Ship .EPSF

D Swiss knife .EPSF

□ Telephone.EPSF

'•'X :

IDI 425 Art Disk 6 lEJI

Name

■■-*- moc

", : . ; .

i'.'i'i:

:\:\\\

;!;';!

□ Dolphin 2. art

D Fancy Telephone/Icon

Q Fish Scene

D Keys.EPSF

D Liberty Bell

D Mac +.EPSF

D Man's Head

D Moos* H*ad. EPSF

D Music .EPSF

<3i Notice to Users

D Open padlock tilt .EPSF

□ Ornament 1 .EPSF
D Pigoon

□ Right fist .EPSF

D Rooster Crowing.EPSF
D Rooster .EPSF
D SignUp

□ Snake
Q Zoweee!

Disk 423. 424 and 425, Art Disks
4. 5 and 6.

These contain mainly Adobe Illus-
trator files in Encapsulated
PostScript format for use with DTP
or PostScript drawing programs.
Thery need a PostScript printer for
hard cony output.

June 1991

Applc2QQ0

User
Grou

SOUTHAMPTON

CONTACT - Geoff Parson

VENUE
DORSET APPLE USER GROUP

Tel : WWMvrQ^KWirtJl
Tel : iMMfi^ ifetffWJI
- Contact Geoff for details

CONTACT - Ron Iloarc Tel : '■!*»"•- *t3B5&3

VENUE - Stuart Magnus & Co. StaUon Rd. Broadstone

Wales and West

BRISTOL GROUP CB-A-U.U)

London Region

ESSEX GROUP

CONTACT - Pat Bermingham Tel : uiims^iia^siM? 1

VENUE - The Y.M.C.A., Victoria Road. Chelmsford

MEETS - Third Friday of every month

HERTS & BEDS GROUP

CONTACT -Norah Arnold Tel: -*:.-'■ '

VENUE - The Old School. 1 . Branch Road,

Park Street Village, St Albans, Herts.
MEETS - 8.00pm on the first Tuesday of each month

KENT GROUP

CONTACT - Richard Daniels

VENUE

MEETS - Contact Richard

LONDON APPLE II GROUP

CONTACT Chris Williams
VENUE

MEETS - Contact Chris

LONDON MACINTOSH GROUP

CONTACT - Maureen de Saxe

VENUE

MEETS - Contact Maureen

M25 BUSINESS MAC GROUP

CONTACT -JimPanks
VENUE

MEETS

SOUTH EAST ESSEX MAC GROUP

Tel:

Tel:' ■-■-

Tel : am *R?fc 4tfa#*

Tel ■ <i@iti> wwanr

- Sir Mark Collctt Pavilion. Hcavcrham Road,
Kcmslng, Sevcnoaks, Kent

- Phon*^ *!lm for details

CONTACT - Mick Foy Tel ;

VENUE - D.P.S. Acorn House. Little Oaks. Basildon.

Essex
MEETS First Monday of each month

CONTACT - Malcolm Ingslcy Tel : ifHfpft
VENUE - Decimal Business Machines.
Three Queens Lane. RcdclifTc
MEETS - first Wednesday of each month

HANTS & BERKS GROUP

CONTACT - Tel :

VENUE - Thames Valley Systems (Apple Dealer).

128 High Street. Maidenhead, Berkshire,
SL6 1PT Tel 0628-25361

MEETS - 7.00pm on the second Monday of every month

MACTAFF - SOUTH WALES MAC GROUP

CONTACT -

VENUE - Apple Centre South Wales. Longcross Court

47 Newport Road. Cardiff
MEETS - Con tact Apple Centre

Midlands

CAMBRIDGE APPLE USERS GROUP

CONTACT - II Ian Archibald Tel : <*&£)

Mac Richard Boyd Tel : HUH HHHHHl

VENUE - Impington Village College, New Rd, Impington.

Histon.

MEETS * Fortnightly during term time with both Mac
and Apple U on deck each night

EAST MIDLANDS MAC USER CROUP

CONTACT • David Nicholson Cole Tel : r.< ;ia t ^
VENUE - School of Architecture. Univ. of Nottingham

MEETS - 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at 8 pm

GATEWAY COMPUTER CLUB

CONTACT - Vera Tel ; '"Hn

Robin Boyd Tel :

VENUE - Bob Hope Recreation Centre. RAF Mfldcnhall

MEETS - AMS conference room. Mlldcnhall base.

Normally at weekends, check with Robin
NOTE : Although the venue is on a servlrr
base It (s not in a security restricted area so
the club is open to interested parties.

South

POOLE MACINTOSH USER GROUP

CONTACT - David Hucklc Tel :

VENUE - Deverill Computers (dealer)

ItCC House. 34-40 West Street, Poole, Dorset

BH15 1LA

LEICESTER GROUP

CONTACT - Bob Down Tel : HI

VENUE - Shakespeare Pub, Uraunstone Lane, Leicester

MEETS - 7.30pm to 10.0pm on the first Wednesday of

every month

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June 1991

MIDAPPLE

CONTACT -Dave Ward Tel: <»>*>= ='^

VENUE - l.T.E.C, Tlldaslcy Sircel. West Bromwich,

West Midlands
MEETS - 7.00pm on the second Friday of every month

THE MIDLAND MAC GROUP

CONTACT - Ivan Knezovich Tel :

VENUE - Spring Grove House, West Midland Safari

Park, Bewdlcy, Worcestershire.
MEETS - 8.00pm on the first Tuesday nf every month

WEST MIDLANDS AMATEUR COMPUTER CLUB

CONTACT

VENUE

MEETS

- JohnTraccy Tel ; -aiMim -*tjtUf~

- Hill Crest School, Slmms Lane. Ncthcrton,
Near Dudley.

- 7.00pm on the second and fourth Thursdays

of each month.

NOTE - - Tills Is not an Apple user club. It Is a
general interest club which welcomes users of

all machines. There are currently two Apple

user members.

North

BURNLEY APPLE USER GROUP

CONTACT -RodTumough Tel : #RlJHfc3ii&?">

VENUE - Michel In Sports Centre
MEETS - 2nd Wednesday of each month

CREW COMPUTER USER CLUB

CONTACT -!W£&miWJIff

VENUE - Christ Church Hall, Crewe

MEETS - Fortnightly, Fridays, 7.30pm to 10.00pm

NOTE: this is a general interest group with

Apple users among its members

H ARROGATE AREA

CONTACT - Peter Sutton Tel : <t»iy& **•**?$!>

No active organised, group in this area but there
arc a number of keen Apple users In. contact wilh
each other.

LIVE RPOQL GROUP

Tel:

CONTACT - Irene Flaxman

VENUE - Check with Irene

MEETS - Second Monday of every month.

THE NORTH EAST APPLE COMPUTER CLUB

CONTACT - Philip Dixon Tel : wtiimfliitii'ini

VENUE - Apple Centre North East. Pontcland Road.

Ponteland, Newcastle-on-'iyne
MEETS - First Wednesday of every month

THE NORTH WEST APPLE COMPUTER CLUB

CONTACT -JlmLeecy Tel: "WfcM&M*

VENUE - Chetwode Arms. Lower Whitley, Warrington

2 miles south of M56 junction 10 on the A49
MEETS - Second Thursday of every month

THE NORTH WEST APPLE USERS GROUP
CONTACT -Max Parrot

Tel: «»rJi 4>J|B :is:i:. ;c«t§i. i"f=*i -g^ttjffg

Tel : ■=»= -'•■ H!>fc :»»!•" — ....iii^tr
VENUE
MEETS - Ring Max

Scotland

EDINBURGH GROUP

Tel: iftJiii '••

CONTACT - Ricky Pollock

VENUE

MEETTS - Meetings monthly, check with Ricky

Postal

APPLE II PROGRAMMERS CLUB

TEL : 'u*iit: ■

CONTACT -Philip Dixon

VENUE - None established yet

MEETS - No meetings yet, has operated through

postal newsletter published quarterly
NOTE : Philip started the club some time ago based
on a membership fee of £1.00 to cover the cost of
newsletters. Original Intention was to concert I rule
on BASIC and Assembler programming.

Other Groups

ORPINGTON COMPUTER CLUB

CONTACT - Terry Wheeler Tel : artisfii lit uriis

VENUE - G.E.A. Hall. Woodhurst Avenue. Perworth
MEETS - Contact Terry

DONCASTER SOUTH YORKSHIRE

CONTACT - Colin Withington Tel : '$IKB

VENUE

MEETS - Contact Colin

EAST ANGLIA GROUP

CONTACT - Gordon Freeman Tel ■■&?■

VENUE

MEETS Contact Gordon

LEEDS

CONTACT -Rob Miller

-TVcluppillai
VENUE
MEETS - Contact Boh

Tel : <8)ll&J£fBii;

Tcii mm ^u^

COSTA BLANCA MACUSER GROUP

CONTACT - CliveRead

VENUE - H.T.R. Espana s.l.. Edif. Bernta bajo local 8,

c/. Juan de Juanes. Bcnissa (Alicante) Spain

MEETS - Last Wednesday of every month, 2pm - 4pm

If you want to start a group, find out about a
group that might be near you. please write or
contact John Lee the Local Group Organiser at
the PO Box in Liverpool, or phone John Lee on

If you are a local group organiser and have not
been in touch with John Lee, please contact
John with details of your group, or any
changes there may be to the above details.

June 1991

Apple2000

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Mamtmn Small Adverts aft* FREE.
Please help us to help you. Scad jrour
advertisements to us on ■ disk, In Mao
or Apple n tejrt format. We wUl return
the disk, of course. This saves us time,
nod avoids ctrors.

Mombon Small Advorts oro FKE.
Wc reserve the right to edit and or omit
them. They are plated to this jwagasine
In good faith. Apple 2000 holds no re-
■poat IbUlty over Items sdvertlsed. and
buyers purchsse at their asm risk.

WARNING: The sale of copied or pirated software is illegal.
Please ensure that items offered for sale are new or are re-registered.

WANTED
Programmer sought to develop an educational datalogging pack-
age (currently on IBM PC) lor Apple He and GS.

'Phone: John Cretlin (working hours) .....'**«** *

(evenings) .#»* ******

£30

FOR SALE
Apple lie (128K enhanced) fitted with

2 Apple 5.25" floppy drives & disk controller card
Universal Disk Controller card (for two 3.5" floppy drives)
Mouse card (with mouse)

80 Column caiU with extended memory Package: £250

Apple 12" green monitor (tilting), with dust cover

Apple monitor stand

Juki 6100 dalsywheel printer, with dust cover

Parallel Interface & cable, addl. dalsywhccls and ribbons ...£60

Epson MX80 F/T dol matrix printer

Parallel Interface & cable, spare ribbon £40

Apple presents Apple; Sample Programmes; System

Master;

ApplcWritcr (Master and backup) (All Dos 3.3) Package £20

AppleWorks 3.0 (as new) (ProUos) £80

Publish It 2 (as new) [ProDos) £60

ProDos Users Disk and Manual £10

UHFTV and sound modulator £10

3 x 5.25" floppy drive storage boxes and some blank disks £10

SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE LOT! £500

Prices do not include pstagc.

11 the above with original manuals and packaging (with the
exception of one disk drive and Epson MX80.)

'Phone Ian - jmm- utv. ~>\

FOR SALE

Enhanced Apple //*• system consisting of:*

4MHz Zipchip; Prodos clock; External fan/fUtcr;

Grappler* parallel printer interface:

Mockingboard stereo sound and speech card;

64Kbytc 80-column card: IMbytc Sprlntdlsk Ram board;

Apple mouse and interface; Joystick;

2 x 5.25" floppy disk drives plus Interface;

3.5" Unidisk disk drive and interface:

MicrovUce 14" colour monitor (has pal Input for video recorders)
Also countless manuals, software packages, floppies, Including: -

AppleWorks 3; Apple hardware + software manuals;

Timeouts; Beneath Apple Prodos; Prose!; ApplcWritcr;

Beagle compiler: various Beagle disks; Games: Copy2Plns:

Complete set of Open Apple/ A2 Central on disks + newsletters:

Complete set of Timeout Central on disk; etc, etc, etc

Buyer collects £550

'Phone Terry (Leeds) itijlit*

FOR SALE
He (128K). with external 5.25" drive, monitor with stand and

mouse - - £300 o.n.o.

Epson LX800 printer with serial interface £100 o.n.o.

'Phone Alex Jola (evenings ♦ weekends) iti»i-t t

(office hours) ***»* ft**'ii»»t

^^^^s»s»s>4>— —

FOR SALE
EUROPI.US WITH DOUBLE DISC DRIVE. MONITOR THERMAL

PRINTER LANGUAGE CARD £100

MACTAKLFrr WITH STYLUS AND MASTER DISC 4.0 £100

ABATON PRO POINT DIGIT1AL CURSOR CONTROL FOR MAC . £25

SIMMS, 256X4 lOOnS. 2 CHIP VERSION £5

CORVUS NETWORK MANAGERS GUIDE AND NETWORK. US-
ERS GUIDE. MANUALS £10

A-B DATASWITCH £5

•PHONE S. HOLLINGSHTIRST «t»

FOR SALE
Apple //e (128KJ, 80-col green screen monitr, twin dri ves

Epson LX80 printer plus Interface £250

•Phone Shaun '••«■»* *«*«»•*

FOR SALE
ImagcWrtter II with colour ribbon £250

'Phone Adrian Price........... - '!*?*?& **"***'*<?

FOR SALE
APPLE 1IGS COLOUR SYSTEM
£585 complete, or will separate into:

Item

Number of Hems bought

2 or 3

4,5 or 6

IIGS(256K)+ kybrd + mouse
APPLE RGB MONITOR
APPLE 3.5'- DRIVE
APPLE 5.25" DRIVE
APPLE lmcg RAM CARD
BUFFERED GRAPPLER PLUS

325
100
95
55
80
35

300
90
90
50
75
30

285
80
80
45
70
25

Will only sell separate Items once the CPU is sold.

Prices do not include delivery. All Items include manuals. All

items are in excellent condition, careful home use only.

'Phone Jonathan Shippam

W**M ; ' 1 '- ,: '-

WANTED
Apple Macintosh computer — Classic HD2/40, LC or recent SE/30.
Also. MacDrawdisk (any version! preferably unregistered to use to
upgrade to MacDraw PRO. Any other useful software for the Mac.

Phone Jonathan Shippam • : wwn :

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June 1991

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